Either get rid of tie breaker or the tie loop hole

If a T&F event ends in a tie they should go to penalties to decide the winner

All ties end in an 800 meter run off.

I agree, plus if the tie is INTENTIONAL, then both or all individuals need to be DQ'ed.

How can athletes be allowed to decide if they want to tie? What if all competitors just say they want to tie for the gold medal?

In today’s women’s PV, how do you determine the tie breaker? They tied in misses. Neither we’re going to clear 4.95. How would you resolve it?

them we'll have the biggest wholesome moment EVER

It's not about competing or winning, it's about making friends.

Keep going until one of them actually makes it.

Neither of them would have. We’d still be out there.

But then BOTH can't tell sponsors that they are world champs.

Oh well.

I don't see the problem. They both achieved the same feat so it makes sense to give both of them the gold. The same applies to runners that achieve the same time down to the thousandth: they wouldn't be told to have a run-off, so why should field athletes?

For the time measurements, you would go past the thousandths (if necessary), and keep going until you find two different digits. The greater of the two digits = winning time.

Let's do it at the Super Bowl the next time there is a tie. Ask the quarterbacks if they both want to be Super Bowl Champs.

The equipment isn't precise enough for that. If the times are the same to the thousandth then they are considered the same.

they wouldn't and they aren't.

some ties for gold and silver happened at the winter olympics.

but they should have a run-off tho.

change the rules, fix the problem, don't let athletes decide if they want to share medals.

one day they'll all jump 4 meters and miss the rest on purpose and they'll have to award gold to everyone. a sh*tshow.

Messi and Mbappe would never hug after 140 minutes and say "yeah bro let's share the world cup we're tired and risking injury"

What do you mean? There is a standard procedure for this, it’s not some unprecedented situation. When this happens, they continue the competition lowering the bar until someone wins outright.

Track races aren't decided by time. They are decided by the image. There is never a tie.

There is a system in place or they wouldn't have been asked.

Breaking a tie in running events go past thousandths to ten-thousandths if needed. The effort in field events to break a tie is much less stringent than runners repeating their race.

Ties in field events are always broken at all levels including middle school. I have never heard of athletes being allowed to agree to tie until the HJ a few years ago and now this. One thing t&f has promoted from its inception is "there are no ties in t&f".

The rule is actually if no one clears the height, the go down a height. If both make it, back up. If neither make it, down another height. This goes on until one clears and the other does not.