Track and field has a new star in Justin Gatlin, the American who won the men's 100-meter dash. It was a good race - only one one-hundredth of second put Gatlin ahead of Portugal's Francis Obikwelu, who in turn was that much ahead of American Maurice Greene. Greene, by the way, had been trying to become only the second man in history (after Carl Lewis in 1984 and 1988) to win this race in two consecutive Olympiads.
The decathlon is underway, and American favorite Tom Pappas is in fifth place after being halfway through. Due to the way the points are calculated, though, he still has a chance to win - and become only the second American to win the decathalon since Bruce Jenner in 1976 (Dan O'Brien, from 1996, was the first)
In gymnastics, it turns out that Paul Hamm won the gold medal in the men's all-around competition due to a scoring error that should have given the gold medal to South Korean Yang Kae Young. Personally, I don't think Hamm should give his gold medal back - it's not his fault Kim got the bronze medal instead, and Hamm gave a worthy performance last week. I do, however, believe that Kim should get a duplicate gold medal - and it appears Hamm has a problem with that. Oh, dear, this could get ugly. . .as in "ugly American . . .."
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