I think the high jump and pole vault are a bit different in that they both jumped the same height with the same records. On the day, neither athletes were better or worse than the other, and the jump off would have involved starting at a lower mark than what they'd already jumped. I can understand why sharing the gold would be the best option there.
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I don't get why they didn't just put the bar say 1cm higher than it had been before... May well have been within the rules to just say they didn't want to do a jump off, but doesn't seem to be in the spirit of things to me.
In some ways it was nice to see them celebrating together as friends, but in another way it just made a bit of a mockery of the whole idea of competing to win if you can just decide not to find out who the winner is and guarantee yourself a gold medal rather than potentially getting the silver.
In some ways it was nice to see them celebrating together as friends, but in another way it just made a bit of a mockery of the whole idea of competing to win if you can just decide not to find out who the winner is and guarantee yourself a gold medal rather than potentially getting the silver.
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Poor Gemili 
Edit: Warholm just took a giant dump on the 400m hurdles WR.
Edit: Warholm just took a giant dump on the 400m hurdles WR.
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Only 4 men have run under 47 seconds in the history of the 400 hurdles, he has just ran under 46 seconds ffs wow!
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There are plenty of other Olympic sports where a dead heat means sharing the medal. If two athletes recorded identical times in the 100m they wouldn’t make them go back and run again. It’s no different to what happened in the high jump, their best performances were identical and the jump off would have been like flipping a coin.
Ed Clancy has pulled out and retired because of injury.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58068196
But winning the same event at 3 consecutive games isn't too shabby.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58068196
But winning the same event at 3 consecutive games isn't too shabby.
Ed Clancy has pulled out and retired because of injury.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/58068196
But winning the same event at 3 consecutive games isn't too shabby.
That's a huge shame, for him to be there through such a long period! Hopefully the team can pull a medal out for him today!
My first moment of rage at the BBC. Diving and sailing taking priority over women's team pursuit.
Where they just set a new World Record.
its a hydraulic starting gate it releases the rear wheel when the clock hits zero, prevents false starts
the other riders dont need one as they go after the lead rider has set off