What just happened? Everyone gets a (gold) medal. Did they just hand out two gold medals in the HJ instead of doing a jumpoff?

JO Coach wrote:

Is this OP serious? How does one troll their own message board?

We all ask ourselves this question ALL the time

rojo wrote:

Society handing out a medal to everyone has reached a new peak (or low) depending on how you view it.

I think they just gave out two gold medals. Anyone watching on tv able to confirm?

I have never seen this before. I didn't know that you had a choice. A jump off is the tie breaking procedure.

So the co-founder of a track and field website either doesn't know the rules of the sports his website is dedicated to, he didn't care to take the 3 minutes to research what happened or he is purposely trolling.

No matter what, makes you seem like an idiot.

rojo wrote:

Society handing out a medal to everyone has reached a new peak (or low) depending on how you view it.

I think they just gave out two gold medals. Anyone watching on tv able to confirm?

This is a bizarre take.

They both cleared every single attempt up to 2.39. They both missed every attempt at 2.39. They were tied.

Awarding them both a gold is a reflection of the actual competitive event. Forcing a jump-off is just trying to satisfy some desire to separate results when the true result is actually a tie.

This is in the running for the most illogical and off-base rant award. And that is saying something, on this website.

rojo wrote:

Javman wrote:

Are you seriously suggesting FORCING athletes to risk injury by continuing? If so, that is absolutely asinine.

Risk injury? Yes.

I think they should NEVER go to penalities in the world cup final. 100%. Make the goal bigger every 10 minutes.

C'mon guys. This isn't serious, of course, but it is funny--I appreciate it.

I mean, the original post was a silly strawman implying that everyone can get a gold, as if everyone is capable of jumping a perfect card until 2.39, but independently of that, one can still appreciate this funny poke at soccer for using kick-offs instead of more playing time.

Split the medal in two.😊

rojo wrote:

Society handing out a medal to everyone has reached a new peak (or low) depending on how you view it.

I think they just gave out two gold medals. Anyone watching on tv able to confirm?

My reaction was they shouldn't allow it as an option. If I were offered a shared gold medal or risk losing it I would probably take it too. The same thing happened a couple years ago at indoors.

Im a scientist. wrote:

347893 wrote:

I have never seen this before. I didn't know that you had a choice. A jump off is the tie breaking procedure.

What don’t you understand? THE COMPETITION WAS THE JUMP OFF.

They each couldn’t jump any higher, so raising the bar higher doesn’t make sense, neither does lowering the bar.

SO ITS A TIE.

WTF is so hard to understand about this

How about they lower the bar to 6 feet and they each jump over it until they can’t anymore? Oh wait bc that’s f*cking dumb

Javman wrote:

Are you seriously suggesting FORCING athletes to risk injury by continuing? If so, that is absolutely asinine.

This. And both athletes had crawled back from serious injuries to the top of the podium. A jump off would be an insane risk for both, fatigued after their best jumping in a long while. Going up in height is one thing. The HJ and the PV are those odd events where you continue until you fail, even the winners. There are cases where I would have preferred a jump off but this was not one.

kiowavt wrote:

Javman wrote:

Are you seriously suggesting FORCING athletes to risk injury by continuing? If so, that is absolutely asinine.

This. And both athletes had crawled back from serious injuries to the top of the podium. A jump off would be an insane risk for both, fatigued after their best jumping in a long while. Going up in height is one thing. The HJ and the PV are those odd events where you continue until you fail, even the winners. There are cases where I would have preferred a jump off but this was not one.

This. But Rojo doesn’t take high jumpers seriously as athletes and doesn’t care about their injuries either. He told us himself

They cleared 2.37. They missed at 2.39. If nothing else, why wouldn't you make them each take one jump (or three) at 2.38? If they both make or miss there, I could understand calling it a tie. But there was an intermediate height that they hadn't attempted, so why not use that?

really, no jump-off wrote:

They cleared 2.37. They missed at 2.39. If nothing else, why wouldn't you make them each take one jump (or three) at 2.38? If they both make or miss there, I could understand calling it a tie. But there was an intermediate height that they hadn't attempted, so why not use that?

This would be one option, I think. Or do another at a lower height until one clears and the other does not. But you cannot force anyone to jump. If both deny it the tie remains.

There was a jump-off in Bejing 2015; I admittedly do not remember watching this but I might have and forgot about it.

overpole wrote:

sadtomato wrote:

Exactly, it would be stupid to do a jump off and risk losing the gold.

Would it? Would you accept a gold if they gave them out to eight tied jumpers? A gold is just the symbol for being the best in the world. The symbol got confused for the achievement.

You have to realize a pro track meet, especially a major championship, is a show. Unlike the horizontal jumps, the high jump/pole vault can have almost unlimited attempts. That is why those events take so long to complete with each jumper having three attempts per height with almost unlimited attempts because of jumpoffs. High jump/pole vault competitions can last for hours. If they can make them shorter, why not?

rojo wrote:

Yeah their injuries are so bad that they were terrible tonight.

Not sure about Barshim, but Tamberi got pretty close to completely rupturing his achilles tendon in 2016, had to undergo surgery and was out of competition for a couple of years. For most athletes this type of injury is career-ending and I can see that they were not exactly eager to roll the dices once more...

Risking injury? It's the Olympics. They have time to get over any injury. But I do agree. No need for a jump off! Share the Gold and nothing wrong with that. I do have a problem with Sudden death penalty kicks in soccer. Like it goes from two teams against each other to 2 goalies and a few on the team. Is that team really better that makes more penalty kicks? Lots of luck involved in that. Play another period to determine the winner.

foryouandmeandher wrote:

Risking injury? It's the Olympics. They have time to get over any injury. But I do agree. No need for a jump off! Share the Gold and nothing wrong with that. I do have a problem with Sudden death penalty kicks in soccer. Like it goes from two teams against each other to 2 goalies and a few on the team. Is that team really better that makes more penalty kicks? Lots of luck involved in that. Play another period to determine the winner.

High Jump isn’t an endurance event. They jumped the same height so they both get gold. End of story, everyone move on

King Solomon wrote:

Split the medal in two.😊

Split the Gold and the Silver medals in two.

Meld them together to make two new medals, each half gold and silver.