Friday, Aug. 27 – Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee, said today that there would be no duplicate gold medals given to the German eventing team or to Bettina Hoy, as the Federation Equestre International and German officials reportedly requested earlier in the week.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport had taken them away from the Germans in an Aug. 21 ruling after France, Great Britain and the United States had appealed an earlier decision (see earlier Breaking News).

As reported by the Associated Press, Rogge also denied South Korea’s request to have a duplicate gold medal awarded in men’s all-around gymnastics because of a scoring mistake that gave the title to American Paul Hamm. “We are not going to give medals for so-called humanitarian or emotional reasons,” Rogge said Friday at a breakfast meeting with reporters.

“There was a huge Korean push to have a second medal, and a huge German push to have a second medal, but we said no,” Rogge said in an Associated Press report. “You can’t stop national Olympic committees from asking for more medals; this will never stop. The IOC will be consistent and say no.”