Overseas: Cornish success at Olympics


We have been very excited to watch Paul Hamm win gold at the
Olympics, and to watch Paul and his twin Morgan lead the US team to silver! -- because they are grandsons of Paul and Jean Carpenter Mooring of the Illinois Cornish Society. A Cornish Connection at the Athens Olympics! Not Cornish wrestling perhaps, but gymnastics extraordinaire.
It's Jean who has the Cornish heritage, with names in her background like Baragwanath and Curnow. The place she's connected with is Towednack.
Surely it's about time the Cornish were invited back to the games?
We were in the 1912 games with the Cornnish rugby team.


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