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Friday, August 27, 2004

Paul Hamm's Gold Medal...

Belongs to Paul...

The South Koreans are all upset about this - claiming their gymnast was cheated out of the gold medal...

They apparently ignored this:
The U.S. coach has also said that Yang should have received a 0.2 point deduction for four holds on the bar, a penalty that would have kept him in third place regardless of a correct start value.

Whoops! There goes that whole argument...If we're going to revisit the South Koreans' score, then the whole thing becomes fair game - not just the part the South Koreans want to revisit.

Besides, that's not what they thought in 1988....

But unlike 2004 when the mistake was unintentional, 1988 was a different story:

For his 1996 book, The New Lords of the Rings, Jennings discovered police documents that offered the most damning evidence that bribes were made in Seoul. Records from the files of the Stasi - the defunct East German secret police - showed more than $15,000 changed hands among boxing officials in Seoul.

The IOC investigated, and the result?

The IOC decided not to reverse any judges' decisions. Jones still was denied a gold medal.

I'll tell you what: when they give back Roy Jones' 1988 gold medal, they can start complaining about Paul Hamm's 2004 gold medal...

Until then, I have one message for you: STFU South Korea...you lost, get over it...