CAS doesn't have any authority tho, do they? Hamm apparantly will give it back voluntarily if they rule as such.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) -- U.S. gymnast Paul Hamm will find out Thursday whether he can keep his Olympic gold medal.
Hamm, from Waukesha, Wis., won the all-around title in Athens, but South Korea's Yang Tae-young wants the Court of Arbitration for Sport to change the results and move him from third place to first because of a scoring error.
Hamm and Yang appeared before a three-judge panel of the CAS in Lausanne on Sept. 27. The court said Tuesday it will issue its verdict on Thursday.
Hamm has said he will abide by the ruling of the CAS, which cannot be appealed.Yang was wrongly docked 0.1 points for the level of difficulty of his parallel bars routine in the all-around. He ended up 0.049 points behind Hamm.
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) acknowledged the error and suspended the three judges. But FIG officials said they wouldn't change the results because the South Koreans didn't file a protest in time.
Then FIG president Bruno Grandi wrote a letter to Hamm asking him to surrender the gold medal voluntarily. That, in part, prompted the South Korean federation to appeal to the CAS.
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