The U.S. faces an uphill battle without the injured Hamm twins China should win the gold medal, followed by Japan with the silver The U.S. will battle Russia, Korea, Germany and Romania for bronze The U.S. men's gymnastics team seems to have been suffering from snakebite ever since the Olympic squad was named. First, Paul Hamm went down, the 2004 all-around gold medalist's comeback derailed by a broken bone in his hand followed by a rotator cuff injury. Then, Thursday afternoon, Morgan Hamm unexpectedly pulled himself off the team, hobbled by a painful bonespur in his left ankle that prevented him from doing a floor routine. Without either of the Hamm twins, who competed in both the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, the U.S. team will need everything go right from here on out if it's to have any chance of coming home from Beijing with...
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