[jsbankston]

Okay, right thread now.

I understand that he did not cheat to win the Gold Medal but he is taking credit for something he did not actually do.

Suppose in 36 years Paul runs for President of the United States and as part of his Campaign he 'claims' to have won a Gold Medal at the 2004 Olympics.

However, everyone who was in Athens form a group, buy commercial time and tell the world what really happened at the Olympics.

He should give back his medals just as John Kerry should give up his medals.

[doug from upland]

Thanks for bringing the debate here. :)

[doug from upland]

John Kerry wrote the phony reports for his medals. I don't think Paul did that.

[doug from upland]

If another officer made an error and wrote up Kerry for a medal, he should keep it. If Kerry wrote it up himself and phonied it up and resubmitted after it was turned down --- he doesn't get it.

[supercat]

I understand that he did not cheat to win the Gold Medal but he is taking credit for something he did not actually do.

The judging error which the Koreans are claiming was counterbalanced by another which would more than offset it. I see no basis for saying that only judging error that was adverse to the Korean should be corrected. If correcting all errors would have put the Korean ahead, then a split gold would probably have been apropos. But from my understanding of the sport and the routines, that was not the case.