Attempt for gym gold closure stirs hard feelings
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ATHENS, Greece -- Calling South Korean Yang Tae Young &quot;the true winner,&#39;&#39; International Gymnastics Federation president Bruno Grandi has written a letter to American Paul Hamm, asking him to voluntarily turn over his Olympic gold medal to Yang.
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Gained a few pounds as a result of Christmas Day lunch and chocolates on Boxing Day? If you&#39;re thinking of dusting off your gym membership card for some post-yuletide exercise, you won&#39;t be alone.
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ATHENS -- They ended up on a podium with medals. Maybe not the podium they expected to mount and maybe not the color medal they came to get. But going home with a bronze beats the alternative -- going home with mostly bad memories -- and the US men's basketball team ended its frustrating Olympic run last night with a ...
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ATHENS -- US gymnast Paul Hamm won the Olympic all-around gold medal five days ago. At least he thought he did. But with the South Koreans still insisting that bronze medalist Yang Tae Young was robbed, Hamm feels that he has to remind the world who the winner was.
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An attempt by world gymnastics officials to find an easy ending to the Paul Hamm medal saga has backfired and turned the whole thing into an even bigger mess.
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The hearing over the men&#39;s gymnastics gold medal from the Athens Olympics adjourned today without a decision. The general secretary of the Court of Arbitration for Sport said he hopes there will be a decision within two weeks.
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Adrian Annus faces the threat of becoming the second Hungarian athlete to be stripped of a gold medal after he failed to show up for a drugs test yesterday.
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It started with a missed drugs test and ended with a stripped gold medal. In between it was dominated by steroids, stimulants and diuretics.
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The athletic shoe and apparel retailer continues its struggles.
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US Olympic officials said Friday the International Gymnastics Federation had pressured Paul Hamm to give up his all-around gold medal.
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HIGHLIGHT: Emotional moments. We saw Sydney hero Rulon Gardner, crying as he removed his sneakers and left them on the mat -- a traditional signal of retirement -- after winning a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling.
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Timothy Mack had one attempt left to win a gold medal in the pole vault Friday, one attempt left to validate the e-mail address he has used the past four years - goldnathens.
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The controversy surrounding his gymnastics all-around title turned his Olympics into a nightmare, so before leaving Athens, Paul Hamm wanted to clear his name.
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ATHENS, Greece - Sometimes you win silver, and sometimes you lose gold. Tuesday night in an Olympic Indoor Hall that was, for a change, more full than empty, the US Olympic Women&#39;s Gymnastics Team did the latter.
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After reading Bruce Mohl's article on how people are having a hard time reaching customer service reps, I have to agree in thinking that some companies are making it harder on purpose so that the consumer will give up (" Maytag guy wouldn't have left you on hold ," Feb. 21 ). I recently spent 45 minutes trying to get ...
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Rulon Gardner finally let his emotions out after trading Olympic gold for bronze, and the tears he cried weren't of sadness. Gardner, so poised and dispassionate hours before, following the biggest loss of his life, became teary-eyed Wednesday after one of the most surprising gold medalists in Olympic history settled for a bronze on his return trip to the games.
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ATHENS -- Andre Ward knows what he's going to be hearing this afternoon and he's looking forward to it. The light heavyweight will be the only boxer at Peristeri Boxing Hall booed for trying to win a gold medal. Anti-American sentiment has been on the rise at many of the Olympic venues, most noticeably track and field at Olympic Stadium ...