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Hamm's recovery designed with medals in mind


By NANCY ARMOUR, AP National Writer

Wed May 28, 1:20 PM ET

Olympic gold medalist Paul Hamm's recovery from hand surgery is being accelerated so he'll be able to contend for a medal at the Beijing Games.


"I'm not getting him ready just to go," Dr. Lawrence Lubbers said Wednesday. "I want to see a medal. And I want it around his neck."

In this May 22, 2008 file photo, Paul Hamm leaves the arena with ice on his right wrist following the first day of competition at the US men's gymnastics championships at Reliant Arena, in Houston. Hamm had surgery Tuesday, May 27, 2008, to repair the broken bone in his right hand, and will begin physical therapy Thursday. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Smiley N. Pool, File)

AP Photo: In this May 22, 2008 file photo, Paul Hamm leaves the arena with ice...

Lubbers repaired the broken fourth metacarpal in Hamm's right hand Tuesday, inserting a thin plate and nine screws to return the bone to its original alignment. The surgery at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, went "very well," Lubbers said, and the gymnast could be doing resistance exercises within a week.


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