Paul is not the only contender talking the trash.
Yang Tae-young is the gymnast who’s coaches screwed up during the Individual AA competition at the Athens Olympics. A huge blunder, they did not check his start scrore on PBars.
He finished with the Bronze in the AA.
… “Whether I’ll be competing with him (Hamm) or not at the Olympics, I don’t really care,” Yang said in a joint interview with South Korean media this month.
“There are other gymnasts who are better than him and I’d like to focus more on them and also on my performance,” he said in the interview recently released to international media.
With the FIG refusing to redistribute the medals, Yang and the South Korean Olympics committee filed an appeal with the Court for Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Hamm said he would return the gold if the decision of the Lausanne-based CAS went against him but the court ruled in the American’s favour.
Yang accepted the verdict when it was made a few months after the Athens Games and pledged to win gold in Beijing. …
Don’t these guys have media training? People advising them not to help motivate their opponents?
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