Sheryl Shade is also Shawn Johnson's agent:
[QUOTE] "This is what we anticipated," Morgan Hamm's agent, Sheryl Shade, said by telephone from New York. "We're thrilled the review has come out positively and we all look forward to seeing Morgan compete in Beijing. Paul, too."
Paul Hamm, Morgan Hamm's twin brother, who broke a bone in his hand in late May, must show this weekend at a training camp in Colorado Springs, Colo., that the break has healed enough for him to compete at the 2008 Olympics.
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Paul Hamm will probably be confirmed as on the USA men's gymnastics 2008 Olympics team this weekend.
Morgan still on team, and USOC selection committee believe it's the right choice:
[QUOTE] This was the right decision -- for Morgan Hamm, for the U.S. gymnastics effort and for the anti-doping system.
Because what the USADA warning underscores is that the anti-doping system can -- the braying of critics to the contrary -- effect an appropriately measured response to an infraction that bears no evidence of willful, reckless or intentional cheating.
In turn, the USA Gymnastics response to the USADA warning, considered over nearly two weeks, shows further evidence of thoughtful deliberation.
"Our review of the process undertaken by USA Gymnastics showed that the approved Olympic selection procedures for men's gymnastics were followed, and we fully support the findings," the U.S. Olympic Committee's director of sports performance, Steve Roush, said in the statement issued Wednesday.
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[QUOTE]The issue the USADA warning presented in Morgan Hamm's case was simple: the USA Gymnastics committee that picked the 2008 U.S. men's team made its choices after weighing scores from both the two nights of the U.S. championships in Houston as well as the two nights at the Trials in Philadelphia. The USADA warning mandated that Morgan forfeit his May 24 scores.
Would that figure well afterward into a revision of the U.S. roster?
No.
"After thorough analysis," Penny said in Wednesday's statement, "the men's selection committee determined that USADA's ruling did not affect either of those decisions."[/QUOTE]
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