A week after Paul Hamm was cleared to do gymnastics again, the Olympic gold medalist's coach is "tremendously encouraged" by his progress from a broken hand.

Hamm is training five of his six events, including doing a full routine on pommel horse, coach Miles Avery said Friday.

Hamm isn't vaulting yet as a precautionary measure, but likely will start next week -- just in time for Saturday's training camp where he must show he is physically able to compete at the Beijing Olympics.

Hamm broke the fourth metacarpal in his right hand May 22 in the final seconds of his parallel bars routine at the national championships.

Five days later, hand specialist Dr. Lawrence Lubbers repaired the break with a titanium plate and nine small screws.

The men's competition in Beijing begins Aug. 9, giving Hamm a very tight timetable for his recovery.

He was off gymnastics equipment for six weeks, though he spent three hours each day doing strength and conditioning exercises to maintain his fitness level.

Hamm isn't doing his release moves on the high bar yet or some of the twisting skills on parallel bars that would put excessive force on the hand.

Lubbers also has Hamm doing drills instead of full vaults because he wanted to give the hand more time to heal before Hamm starts slamming it on the vaulting table.

Basketball

Center Andrew Bogut was selected to Australia's Olympic basketball team after agreeing to a $60 million, five-year contract extension with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks.

Bogut will join European-based players David Anderson and Matthew Nielsen on a strong team that also includes veteran Chris Anstey and six players making their Olympic debuts.

Bogut was the top overall pick in the 2005 NBA draft.

Cycling

Taylor Phinney, the phenom from Boulder, Colo., became a two-time junior world champion yesterday, winning the 3,000-meter individual pursuit at Cape Town, South Africa.

He will be the U.S. men's best hope for a medal at the Olympic velodrome next month.

Phinney will race the 4,000-meter individual pursuit in Beijing.

Tennis

David Nalbandian could miss the Beijing Olympics because of a right arm injury.

The seventh-ranked Argentine was injured during his first-round loss at Wimbledon on June 23. He has not ruled out surgery.

Track and Field

Dwain Chambers won the 100 meters at Britain's Olympic trials in Birmingham, England.

Chambers, who is returning from a two-year drug ban, finished in 10.00 seconds in yesterday's final, and now hopes a judge will overturn his Olympic ban. He tested positive for the steroid THG in August 2003.

He goes to London's High Court on Wednesday to seek an injunction against the British Olympic Association's lifetime ban on drug cheats. Britain has to name its Olympic squad by July 20.