Hamm in impossible position, even for gymnast
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Once they get their back up, there&#39;s no backing down. They are governed by rules, regulations and, it would seem, by rockheads.
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Gymnast Paul Hamm became the first-ever American to win the men&#39;s all-around title in one of the closest-ever Olympic competitions.
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ATHENS, Greece Aug. 21, 2004 - Paul Hamm&#39;s gold medal has lost some of its luster. A mistake in scoring of the all-around gymnastics final cost Yang Tae-young the gold that ended up going to Hamm, the International Gymnastics Federation said Saturday.
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US gymnast Paul Hamm can keep the gold medal he won in the men&#39;s all-around event at the Athens Olympics, a sports tribunal ruled Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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For millions of Americans, gymnast Paul Hamm&#39;s fame began only when the broad-shouldered Olympian shrugged off a fall in the vaulting competition last week and made an inspired comeback to win gold.
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The South Korean gymnast who lost the all-around title to Paul Hamm because of a scoring error filed an appeal Sunday with a sports arbitration panel, asking it to help him get the gold medal.
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Olympic gymnastics judges give out scores with infinitesimal differences. Mistakes are made. In fact, more than one mistake figures into the controversy of whether American Paul Hamm or South Korean Yang Tae Young are more deserving of the gold medal.
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Athens, Greece (Sports Network) - American Paul Hamm will get to keep his gold medal for the all-around competition, even though the International Gymnastics Federation announced the suspension of three judges for a scoring error that would have given
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Because rarely is a rally so improbable, even the man who pulled it off didn&#39;t believe he could. On the same day he crash-landed on the vault and dropped to 12th place, Hamm nailed his final two routines Wednesday evening to claim ...
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Paul Hamm of the United States won the gold medal Wednesday in all-around gymnastics.
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Paul Hamm of the United States sticks his landing in the high bar during the men&#39;s gymnastics individual apparatus finals at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Monday, Aug. 23, 2004.
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ATHENS, Greece - With his medal hopes all but gone after he hit the judges' table on his vault landing, Paul Hamm performed two of the most spectacular routines of his career to win the men's all-around gymnastics title by the closest Olympics margin ever.   "I'm happy right now...
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American gymnast Paul Hamm will keep his  Olympic all-round gold medal after the Lausanne-based Court of  Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected Thursday an appeal from  South Korea's Yang Tae-young.
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World gymnastics officials were looking for a way out of the Paul Hamm medal mess. All they did was make more people mad. The president of the International Gymnastics Federation asked Hamm to give up his
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The US Olympic Committee says &quot;outrageous and improper&quot; pressure is being put on gymnast Paul Hamm to give up his gold medal to a South Korean rival.
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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
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ATHENS - After a disastrous landing on the vault that nearly sent him crashing into the judges&#39; laps, Paul Hamm thought his night was over.