Paul Hamm

The Olympic trials in men's gymnastics are over, and on Saturday night the selection committee named Paul Hamm and Jonathon Horton to the team that goes to Beijing (provided that a month from now Hamm shows USA...

If you're Paul Hamm, you have several ready-made excuses for not making a successful comeback to the heights of gymnastics.

One thing was missing. Paul Hamm had his gold medal, and U.S. men's gymnastics, for the first time in its history, had the Olympic all-around champion--the best male gymnast in the world.

Embarrassment at the Olympics began as early as 1896, at the revival of the modern Olympics in Athens, where swimming competition was held in such frigid waters in the Bay of Zea that some swimmers were too cold to...

The Olympics have been over long enough that by this time you're probably thinking more about the baseball pennant races or your fantasy football team than anything that happened in Athens, but in a sense, the Games...