- Paul Hamm won the Gold Medal fair and square. It doesn’t matter whether the coaches were [incorrectly] informed to protest later. Athletes and coaches are expected to know the rules.
- Paul Hamm should not feel compelled to return the Gold Medal. I’m sure that anyone competing in gymnastics at his level has been jobbed by the judges in the past. I would not blame him for feeling that this was karmic retribution. In addition, this is not as simple as exchanging medals with Yang - it needs to be a three way swap with all three medal winners agreeing to change their placing.
- Anyone in the FIG who suggests that Paul Hamm return his Gold Medal without working within the FIG to insure that a similar situation can never happen again is a Sniveling Weasel.
- Paul Hamm would not have won the Gold Medal without a scoring error. I do not believe that there would have been a different outcome if Hamm was aware of a different score for Yang. Hamm already knew that he was deep in the hole and he already knew that he had to let it all hang out.
- I wish that the FIG had the guts to admit that they had made a mistake and the will to correct it.