In the pairs, public outcry over the judging throughout North America led the skating union to disqualify one judge and recommend that the silver medalists, Jamie Salé and David Pelletier of Canada, share gold medals with Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze of Russia.
It might have ended there, despite talk of the United States Olympic Committee entertaining the idea of offering to share the gold medal with Yang, but a few days later, F.I.G. president Bruno Grandi threw some gas on a smoldering fire by sending a letter to Hamm saying Yang was the Âtrue winner and asking Hamm to give up the gold medal voluntarily.
He subsequently amassed a fortune as a promoter of shares in gold-mining companies.
In 1989, the British and South African governments entered into an agreement over the salvage of the wreck, sharing any gold recovered.
Together, we looked on as Idi Amin of Uganda and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire shared dinner served on gold plate next to a cage of leopards in the starlit presidential garden above the Congo River at Kinshasa.
On Friday July 30th Anglo American said it had made operating profits of $4.1 billion in the six months to the end of June, up from $1.9 billion in the previous year (when net profits were flattered by the profitable sale of shares in a gold miner).
Currently, the fund holds about 125 short positions in stocks and 75 long positions, about two-thirds of which are invested in shares of gold companies.
They could also invest in the shares of gold mining companies — more of an arm's-length exercise — although the cost of investing in those companies has also risen recently.
GlobeScan Chairman Doug Miller said: "The poll results suggest that integrating the Olympics and the Paralympics would be a controversial decision, with most of the nations who have won the lion's share of gold medals over recent years opposed to the change".
The latest purchase will lift its share of gold holdings to about 6percentt from near 4percentt — less than most of the developed world but four times China's share.
Having swum 1500m in the Serpentine, cycled 43km round Hyde Park in a wet cossie and run till she dropped for 10km, she had been denied a share of gold by what seemed like a dodgy art critic's appraisal of that photo-finish.
