Hamm Missing as Wheaties Honors Olympic Winners

[Dial_tone]

still gettin screwed....

CHICAGO (Reuters) - American gymnast Paul Hamm, who was asked to return his Olympic gold medal in the men's all-around because of a scoring error, may have received another snub.

General Mills Inc, the maker of Wheaties cereal, announced on Monday three U.S. Olympic champions will appear on millions of its iconic orange cereal boxes -- but Hamm was not among them.

Traditionally a launching pad for lucrative commercial endorsement deals, Wheaties boxes will feature record-breaking swimmer Michael Phelps, female gymnastics all-around champion Carly Patterson, and the holder of the "world's fastest human" title, 100-meter gold medalist Justin Gatlin.

"We feel pretty good that they were among the top performances, and they include a broad cross-section of sports" at the just-concluded Olympics, General Mills spokesman Greg Zimprich said.

In one of the biggest controversies of the games, the ruling body of gymnastics has asked Hamm to show sportsmanship and give his gold medal to South Korean bronze medalist Yang Tae-Young. Hamm has refused, saying he felt like he was the champion.

Those pictured on the cereal boxes receive a fee, which was not disclosed.

 

[Y_lifter]

I hate Wheaties

 

[Becoming]

wheaties tastes like shit anyways - and if you want something good for you - eat some oatmeal...

 

[RottenWillow]

Paul Hamm won. The FIG knows a lot of errors were made in scoring and they want Paul to bail their asses out.

I know I'm the only gymnastics fan here so I'll be very brief. There are two sets of judges, one or two that establish an exercise's starting value and others that deduct points from that value based on observed errors. Both sets of judges made errors. Yes Eun's start value was too low, but he also was allowed to get away with having too many holds during his routine, which carries a bigger point loss than the points he was owed on the start value.

So if ALL the judges had scored Eun correctly he would have lost by an even bigger margin. FIG, shut the fuck up already you assholes.

 

[Becoming]

So if ALL the judges had scored Eun correctly he would have lost by an even bigger margin. FIG, shut the fuck up already you assholes.

seriously - they dragged that poor dude through the ringer...

if I were him I woudl make a vid of me melting the damn thing down and pawning the gold....

I woudl tell them I did it cause their bullshit incompetence redered it worthless....

 

[Judo Tom]

i dont get why hamm or his coaches do not bring that point up more

 

[Dial_tone]

6 grams of pure gold in each medal...does that buy much?

 

[supersizeme]

Regardless of who's right or who's wrong in regards to the judging error, the bottom line is that Wheaties isn't interested in what has turned out to be a tainted gold medal.

Paul reportedly was going to bring a video before the Olympic committee and break down the South Korean's performance to show all the errors he made that weren't called in response to them asking for the medal back before he was talked out of it. Nice.

I don't have much sympathy for the guy. I would've offered that medal up to the South Korean before the committee asked me to and been on every single Wheaties box for the next 50 years. I'd buy a zillion gold medallions and engrave "Greatest guy ever in the history of all dudes" on them.

 

[RottenWillow]

21 carat gold. For it's metal content it wouldnt even be worth $150.

 

[Becoming]

6 grams of pure gold in each medal...does that buy much?

well at $407.60 per ounce, 6 grams gets you about 86 dollars...

enough to get some decent greek souvenirs.... or maybe a decent looking prostitute over there... (if prices haven't gone up too much)

 

[Testosterone boy]

Well......should half of the Wheaties athletes be gymnasts?

Paul should advertise for one of their competitors. He has a lot of fans and sympathizers.

 

[Becoming]

I don't have much sympathy for the guy. I would've offered that medal up to the South Korean before the committee asked me to and been on every single Wheaties box for the next 50 years. I'd buy a zillion gold medallions and engrave "Greatest guy ever in the history of all dudes" on them.

So what would you do when it was discovered the guy really should have lost to you? would you still feel so great?

would he give it back?

 

[Dial_tone]

I don't have much sympathy for the guy. I would've offered that medal up to the South Korean before the committee asked me to and been on every single Wheaties box for the next 50 years. I'd buy a zillion gold medallions and engrave "Greatest guy ever in the history of all dudes" on them.

Do you know if the guy was from South Korea? North & South competed as a unified team. They would not have given it back. Consider it payback for stealing Evander Holyfield's Gold medal in Seoul. My guess if the guy was from Canada or some friendly country he might've gotten it.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

In any sport with judges, this is part of the deal.

The only sport that is really without all this shit is track and field: "Start at point A. Get to point B. Jump as far as you can. As high as you can. Throw this thing as far as possible.

even swimming has rules on strokes and when you can kick and all that shit.

They call them "judges" for a reason, and sometimes they fuck up. Shall that IOC or FIG or HIV go through every routine with a fine-toothed comb, or shall people just accept that judges are judges, not machines, and sometimes fuck up?

Hamm is getting rooked. Fuck wheaties, and Carly Patterson? Bitch please.

 

[supersizeme]

So what would you do when it was discovered the guy really should have lost to you? would you still feel so great?

would he give it back?

I would feel briefly annoyed, but then i would go outside and have sex with multiple supermodels on my gold-plated pommell horse.

 

[Becoming]

I would feel briefly annoyed, but then i would go outside and have sex with multiple supermodels on my gold-plated pommell horse.

Forget the supermodels - I'd be bangin the golden pommelhorse!

t88 stylee!!!

 

[coverguy]

cereal is yummy!

 

[the nature boy]

Do you know if the guy was from South Korea? North & South competed as a unified team. They would not have given it back. Consider it payback for stealing Evander Holyfield's Gold medal in Seoul. My guess if the guy was from Canada or some friendly country he might've gotten it.

You mean Roy Jones Jr right?

And South Korea is considered a friendly country, at least in a political sense.

 

[Dial_tone]

You mean Roy Jones Jr right?

And South Korea is considered a friendly country, at least in a political sense.

yes, but it's not determined he's from the South.

Holyfield was denied his shot at a gold medal in 1984 when he knocked out New Zealand's Kevin Barry after a command to stop boxing and was disqualified. Roy Jones Jr. was named outstanding boxer of the 1988 Olympics by embarrassed Olympic officials who couldn't explain why judges gave the gold medal fight to Korea's Park Si-Hun.

 

[MattTheSkywalker]

Roy Jones Jr. was named outstanding boxer of the 1988 Olympics by embarrassed Olympic officials who couldn't explain why judges gave the gold medal fight to Korea's Park Si-Hun.

See? Judges.

You don't like judges? compete in track events.

 

[Testosterone boy]

See? Judges.

You don't like judges? compete in track events.

Dial him in for the toned booty chase.

 

[Dial_tone]

Any event where the winner is chosen by judges is not a sport. If you can't determine the winner by biggest, fastest, heaviest, mostest, etc. it shouldn't be in the Olympics.

 

[Spartacus]

Paul should have given the medal to Roy Jones. Make a big deal out of it too. Press conference.

 

[supersizeme]

4everhung is right. Then they should've eaten Wheaties laced with deca together and then given Egyptian synchronized swimmers' urine samples to the judges and double-penetrated Jenny Finch.