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Brian Cazeneuve's
2004 Olympic Medal Picks
Gymnastics
U.S. OUTLOOK: Both U.S. teams are deep, but Blaine Wilson, Jason Gatson and Morgan Hamm are hobbled, which could jeopardize the men's chances. A women's medal is assured with Carly Patterson and Courtney Kupets leading the way for the Magnificent Six.
Men's Team
Gold China
Silver Japan
Bronze U.S.
U.S. men have never won team gold at a nonboycotted Olympics.
Men's Individual all-around
Gold U.S. Paul Hamm
Silver China Yang Wei
Bronze Japan Hiroyuki Tomita
No U.S. man has won an all-around medal at a nonboycotted Games.
Men's Floor exercise
Gold Canada Kyle Shewfelt
Silver U.S. Paul Hamm
Bronze Romania Marian Dragulescu
Team officials reprimanded Shewfelt in '01 when he took leave to finish school.
Men's Pommel horse
Gold China Xiao Qin
Silver Romania Marius Urzica
Bronze China Teng Haibing
A Canadian judge gave gold medalist Xiao the only 10.0 at the 2003 worlds.
Men's Rings
Gold Greece Dimosthenis Tampakos
Silver Bulgaria Jordan Jovtchev
Bronze Italy Matteo Morandi
Blaine Wilson could have won this event had he not torn a biceps in February.
Men's Vault
Gold China Li Xiaoping
Silver China Huang Xu
Bronze Latvia Yevgeny Sapronenko
Li's signature vault is a round-off to the board, half on, 21Ú2 twist.
Men's Parallel bars
Gold China Li Xiaopeng
Silver Romania Marian Dragulescu
Bronze U.S. Jason Gatson
Dragulescu started gymnastics as a boy in order to get out of karate class.
Men's Horizontal bar
Gold Greece Vlasios Maras
Silver U.S. Paul Hamm
Bronze Belarus Ivan Ivankov
Away from gymnastics, Maras is an avid snowboarder.
Women's Team
Gold U.S.
Silver Romania
Bronze China
U.S. coaches left three individual world champions off the Mag 6.
Women's Individual all-around
Gold Russia Svetlana Khorkina
Silver U.S. Carly Patterson
Bronze Romania Daniela Sofronie
At 25, Khorkina would be the first nonteen to win all-around gold since '68.
Women's Vault
Gold Romania Monica Rosu
Silver Uzbekistan Oksana Chusovitina
Bronze Russia Yelena Zamolodchikova
Chusovitina, 29, unretired to earn cash for her son's leukemia treatments.
Women's Uneven bars
Gold Russia Svetlana Khorkina
Silver U.S. Courtney Kupets
Bronze Great Britain Beth Tweddle
Khorkina has 13 European, world and Olympic titles on bars.
Women's Balance beam
Gold China Fan Ye
Silver U.S. Carly Patterson
Bronze Romania Catalina Ponor
Look for Patterson's dismount, an Arabian double front.
Women's Floor exercise
Gold Brazil Daiane dos Santos
Silver China Cheng Fei
Bronze Romania Catalina Ponor
In 2003, dos Santos became the first Brazilian gymnast to win a world title.
Rhythmic Individual all-around
Gold Russia Alina Kabaeva
Silver Ukraine Anna Bessonova
Bronze Russia Irina Chashina
Kabaeva played a circus contortionist in the Japanese film Red Shadow.
Rhythmic Group
Gold Russia
Silver Greece
Bronze Spain
Russia needed tie-breaking criteria to edge Belarus for Sydney gold.
Trampoline Men
Gold Ukraine Yuri Nikitin
Silver France David Martin
Bronze Russia Alexander Moskalenko
Trampolinists must be at least 18 in the calendar year (16 for artistic gymnasts).
Trampoline Women
Gold Russia Irina Karavaeva
Silver Canada Karen Cockburn
Bronze Germany Anna Dogonadze
Scoring errors gave Karavaeva world gold; she presented it to the runner-up.
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