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Hand Healed, Gymnast Hamm Headed to China
Reigning Olympic gymnastics champion Paul Hamm will get a chance to defend his crown in Beijing thanks to a tryout Saturday that showed his surgically repaired right hand, above, had sufficiently healed.
(Rob Carr - AP)
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