[jyl]

No.

Judging and scoring errors are part of sports, including of gymnastics. An error can't be viewed in a vacumn, because the scores are known immediately and they affect the rest of the performance - if the Korean gymnast had received the higher score, perhaps Hamm would have reached even deeper and pulled out an even better performance himself.

If the international gymnastics sport community wants to adopt a general policy of reviewing and changing scoring after the fact, in every competition, then it is free to do so for the future. For many reasons, the sport probably won't chose to make such changes to the rules. In that case, it is unfair to apply such a policy on an arbitrary and occasional basis, to Hamm or to any other athlete. What will happen is what is happening in this case - "give-back" demands get made in response to political pressure, to make young athletes sacrifice their stellar moments so that old men don't have to do the hard work of reforming and improving the judging process.