Paul Hamm's comeback just got a little tougher. The Olympic all-around champion (Athens 2004) champion gymnast said to the news agency "AP", that he has a torn labrum in his right shoulder and will have surgery this week. He had hoped to return to competition for the first time since 2008 at next month's Winter Cup, a U.S. ranking meet. To the US press he said in a statement through his agent.:
"This is extremely disappointing since I...

Following the Trampoline competitions staged earlier on Friday, January 13 at the North Greenwich Arena, participants of the Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics Apparatus Finals’ second day performed in front of a huge and supportive crowd.  The evening ended with Gold for the British host country again.
The best eight gymnasts per apparatus qualified earlier this week and competed for medals on Men’s Vault, Parallel Bars and Horizontal Bar as well as the Women’s Balance Beam and Floor....