Please get a life people
Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece -- 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.
Yang Tae-young wants the Court of Arbitration for Sport to order international gymnastics officials to correct the results from the all-around and adjust the medal rankings so that he gets the gold and the American gets a silver.
CAS said it would consider the appeal in Lausanne, Switzerland, where it is based. With the games ending Sunday, there wasn't time to hear the case in Athens. CAS put off setting a date for the hearing until the International Gymnastics Federation, known as FIG, and the U.S. Olympic Committee could prepare their responses.
"I have no comment," FIG spokesman Philippe Silacci said. "Nothing. I'm sorry."
USOC officials did not immediately respond to a message for comment. USA Gymnastics president Bob Colarossi was traveling and could not be reached for comment.
Yang, who finished with a bronze, was wrongly docked a tenth of a point on his second-to-last routine. He finished third, 0.049 points behind Hamm. Add the extra 0.100, and Yang would have finished 0.051 points ahead of Hamm. That, however, assumes everything in the final rotation played out the same way.
Three judges were suspended after the error was discovered, but FIG said the results would stand because the South Koreans didn't protest the error until after the meet.
But the South Koreans continued to press their case for a gold medal. They appealed to the USOC and the International Olympic Committee, but IOC president Jacques Rogge rejected the idea of duplicate gold medals.
We can't be serious, we're now going to appeal medals, how about we go back to the 1975 world series when in the 8th inning, bases loaded in game 5 I believe when the bases were loaded and there was a called third strike which was ball four which would have given the Sox the lead and the win. And that would have lead them to take the series, but no we can't do that so why should these guys be able to do that.
The Olympics don't have Instant Replay for a reason because you have nothing to review. I can see why last time why they allowed the figure skaters from Canada to keep their gold medal because there was a judging scandal there wasn't a scandal with them. You can't go back and rewrite history, that is just something that can't be done.
Now for some quick Chags and Zags, and to tell people who couldn't figure it out Chag, like myself, is good while Zags, like a certain reader, are bad.
Zags to the New England Patriots for losing yet another preseason game, what is going on with you guys.
Zags to QU for making classes start on Monday instead of after Labor day
Zags to me for what happened to me during a dinner, breaking a plate.
Chags to the Red Sox for winning yet another great game yesturday
That's the blog for today, leave some.
posted by ~Chaggy @ 2:06 PM
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