ATHENS, Greece -- For 10 minutes, the crowd booed and whistled, creating a deafening roar. Paul Hamm sat around and waited to start his routine. A week's worth of controversy in gymnastics boiled over into the stands Monday during a bizarre, extraordinary evening. Hamm was able to block out the noise and win a silver medal on high bar, and four- time Olympic gold medalist Alexei Nemov finished fifth, much to the chagrin of the crowd.
ATHENS - The Olympic men's gymnastics competition, already swirling in controversy, took a truly wild twist Monday. when the high-bar individual final was held up for 10 minutes as the crowd booed and jeered the judges for a score that kept Russian Alexei Nemov from winning a 13th Olympic medal. As it happened, the gymnast most affected by the Nemov lovefest was American Paul Hamm, who was distracted enough with the Koreans hotly contesting his all-around gold medal. Hamm followed Nemov in the bar rotation, and was unable to begin his routine because the crowd, egged on by a Russian coach waving his arms in the air, was so loud.
BEIJING -- Yang Wei clapped as he walked past the vault judges, pumped his fists at the crowd and flashed a thumbs-up for the cameras. He even exchanged high-fives with the competition. Denied in Sydney and disappointed in Athens, he is finally an Olympic champion after winning the men's all-around Thursday. It wasn't close, either. Yang finished with 94.575 points, nearly three points ahead of Japan's Kohei Uchimura. Benoit Caranobe of France won the bronze.
... collector" after he finished second to Alexei Nemov at the Sydney Olympics and second to America...
Heavy rain across Beijing forced Olympic events to be canceled or postponed today, including a five-hour delay to the start of tennis matches. Roger Federer and the Williams sisters probably wish they'd never started - all three stars lost. Federer's bid for his first Olympic singles medal ended when he lost to American James Blake. With the sort of lackluster performance once unthinkable for Federer, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals 6-4, 7-6 (2).
...Yang had finished second to Alexei Nemov in 2000 and fell apart at the Athens Olympic...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - He had to be perfect and hope no one else was. Even Paul Hamm's coach figured it was over: "I thought he had no odds.
..., who lost the gold medal to Russian star Alexei Nemov in Sydney four years ago and then finished s...
RESULTS Today's Olympic Scores
...6. Russia (Alexei Bondarenko; Maxim Deviatovski; Anton Golotsutskov;; Georgi Grebenkov; Alexei Nemov; Alexander Safoshkin), 169.808. 7. Ukraine (Evgeni...
All that booing at the last Olympics sparked some big changes in the world of gymnastics. The scoring and judging systems have been revamped. The perfect 10 is out and video replay is in. And now, many insiders believe, the fans might be too confused to boo.
... scoring system stemmed from Russian star Alexei Nemov's high bar routine at the Olympics, which ha...
International body asks him to give up medal, but USOC says forget about it
... competition when it thought Russian great Alexei Nemov was getting a raw deal in the high bar final...
ATHENS, Greece - It couldn't end simply, not even with the U.S. gymnastics team adding another pair of silver medals and concluding one of its best Olympics ever. Paul Hamm and Carly Patterson added to their gold medals in the all-round competition with a pair of silvers in individual events Monday.
... the unfortunate timing to follow Russian Alexei Nemov on the horizontal bar. Which is exactly when...
Although a few hitches were to be expected, the Athens Olympics, which ended Sunday, should be counted a success -- perhaps as much for what didn't happen as what did. We congratulate not only the city of Athens and government of Greece for pulling the whole event off in a way that did credit to that nation's special connection to the games, but also the United States Olympic Committee for helping to field a team that did all Americans proud. Some might quibble about the medal counts or officiating -- no Olympiad has been without its share of controversies. The issue of performance enhancing drugs loomed larger in these games than ever before (a record two dozen athletes tested positive and at least seven medals were taken away). The professionalization of what was once a strictly amate...
... Italian gold- medal gymnast; Russian Alexei Nemov, the epitome of class in disappointment; and...
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