Paul Hamm, in Lausanne, Switzerland
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The American gymnast will keep his Olympic all-round gold medal after the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland, rejected an appeal from South Korea's Yang Tae-young.
"The Court of Arbitration has decided to dismiss the appeal," a court spokesman told reporters on Thursday, Reuters reports. "This means that the ranking of the men's individual gymnastics all-round event remains the same."
At a Thursday press conference, Hamm said: "The decision agrees with everything we said, that I am the champion."
Hamm, 22, became the first American man to win the Games all-round title in Athens on August 18.
Three days later, however, it was announced that judges had incorrectly scored Yang Tae-young's parallel bars routine, failing to give him enough points for the level of difficulty, known as the start value.
The South Korean ended up with the bronze, and his country's Olympic committee appealed the results – unsuccessfully, as it now turns out.
