Paul Hamm

[LeslieAGD]

Originally posted by OohTeenyWahine
I disagree. Any gymnast could have done that to quiet the crowd.

Not everyone runs a marathon, leads most of the way, and has their gold medal hopes dashed by an overzealous religious freak, and still has the guts and strength to finish the competition.

Don't get me wrong, I think the brazilian got screwed, but I think it took a lot of class from the russian, who used to be a very arrogant jerk in his younger years, to behave in that fashion.

I also think poor Paul Hamm showed a lot of class and held up very well with all the controversy.

[RACooper]

Originally posted by mrblonde
Its a shame its even an issue. Something that is usually the best moment in someones life has been made into one of the worst. Internationally (calling all Europeans, Canadians, the occasional South African ) do you feel the same way as Americans do about this? Disagree? Thought about it twice?

Kudos to Alexei Nemov for calming the crowd for Hamm during the highbar final.

Really don't care either which way... after all Canada had issues with the Gymnastics as well.

We believe that yes he got screwed over big time by the judges... they tried to complain but were told basically "not now", and when the complained again were told they should have earlier... if the scoring was done correctly yes he may have got the gold, and Hamm the silver.

Now the only way that the medals would be switched is if there was evidance that the mistake wasn't a mistake, but instead something planned (ie. Salt Lake and Figure Skating fiasco). Otherwise Hamm shouldn't give up the medal, but he will most likely have the dreaded "*" next to his medal in the books.