Hamm

I have to mention this because it is annoying me.

Hamm didn't win the gold.

Maybe I should just leave it at that.

However, I've seen a lot of talk about how taking the gold away from him would be equivalent to changing the rules after the game is finished. I don't see how that would be the case.

I also saw something about how he had a great routine; again I'm not sure how that relates to him keeping a gold which he didn't win by the numbers.

One person wrote that his win was similar to giving a sprinter a .1 second handicap on the 100m.
It's like giving one team only 5 points for every touchdown and after the game saying it doesn't matter.

That's not the way it works and arguing that he should win the gold because of the mistake just isn't right.

What happened to may the best man win?

Granted a lot of people seem to be agreeing that he should give it back and it has been a bit of fresh air reading all those comments.

After all, you can be pretty sure that if it was the lottery they'd take the money back.

Anyways, I agree: do the right thing. Hamm didn't win. He did a good job, but he didn't win.

How is keeping the gold anything but cheating? Cheating the Korean athlete and just as importantly - cheating himself.

Posted by hugin at Agosto 25, 2004 04:58 PM