Olympic boos - free speech is invigorating

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For 10 minutes, the crowd booed and whistled, creating a deafening roar. Paul Hamm sat around and waited to start his routine. A week's worth of controversy in gymnastics boiled over into the stands Monday during a bizarre, extraordinary evening. Hamm was able to block out the noise and win a silver medal on high bar, and four-time Olympic gold medalist Alexei Nemov finished fifth, much to the chagrin of the crowd.

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The showdown on the last event of the night was supposed to be between Hamm, the all-around champion, and Yang Tae-young of South Korea, who won bronze instead of gold in that event last week because of a scoring error.

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[Skittles]

1. I was watching a big screen at work

(we have six big screens and five mega screens) - no sound, so I thought they were booing Hamm.

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2. I think it really does detract from the Olympics to have such bad

judging - it did not seem to be based on difficulty. So what if someone goes up there and just goes around and around and dismounts.

I was glad for the booing.

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