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Where Do Gymnasts Go To Court?To the Court of Arbitration for Sport, of course.

Posted Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004, at 1:07 PM ET

On Monday, American gymnast Paul Hamm appeared before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland, to defend his Olympic all-around gold medal. South Korean Yang Tae-young appealed Hamm's victory after the International Gymnastics Federation admitted that a judge's scoring mistake had cost Yang the victory. In July, Brendan I. Koerner explained how the Court of Arbitration for Sport works, and why some athletes gripe about it.

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