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Sports Paul And Morgan Hamm Okay With Gays Olympic gymnasts talk about their gay fans and gay family members Cyd Zeigler February 20,pm PST Facebook Threads Bluesky Reddit. He is the Olympic all-around champion, a three-time Olympic medalist, and the World all-around champion.

Huge for U. Said Peter Vidmar, the only other American male to have earned an Olympic all-around medal, a silver in"This is the greatest comeback in the history of gymnastics. Huge for Paul, whose life was about to change in ways he could not imagine.

Paul and Morgan Hamm have gotten plenty of international attention since the duo won a combined four medals at the Summer Olympics in Athens. The light was on in their first-floor room, but when Paul opened the door, Morgan was nowhere to be seen.

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Security guards had briefly abandoned their posts to ogle his gold medal. He hadn't yet talked to his teammate, roommate and training partner of the past 14 years--his twin brother, Morgan. Having won a team silver on Aug. Still, something was missing, and it was 4 a.

Huge drama. He'd qualified first in the preliminaries. They share not only an apartment in Columbus, Ohio, but also the same beat-up car, a Acura. Thinking he might be visiting Blaine Wilson, the old man of the U. Wilson was asleep. Grinning, Morgan summed up his brother's performance with an economy of words that Paul will never forget.

Though in the days that followed the gold medal would lose some of its luster with the discovery of a judges' error--a huge one--that may have cost South Korea's Yang Tae Young the victory box, belowHamm's comeback remained an epic feat.

Then Wilson assessed Hamm's performance that night: "You're scaring me, dude. One thing was missing. Morgan had gone out, he said, maybe to get a phone card. Long before. Paul Hamm had his gold medal, and U. Every time volunteers at the Games had asked him to pose for a snapshot, he had cheerfully obliged.

Wilson wasn't sure. (This story was published in ).

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No one had doubted that the 21year-old from Waukesha, Wis. He was the defending world champion. With twins, nothing is really complete for one without the other's affirmation, and the Hamms are especially close. And now they would share the joy of Paul's achieving their sport's ultimate prize.

So Paul went back to the twins' room and waited. He soon heard a sound on the ledge of the balcony, which was eight feet off the ground, and suddenly, over the railing, Morgan vaulted in. Paul Elbert Hamm (born September 24, ) is a retired American artistic gymnast and member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team.