Is anyone watching this on tape delay on NBC. I can't believe everyone just celebrated when they tied for gold. Isn't the point of sport to beat everyone else?
I think it would be incredible tv is they had them do a runoff like Felix - Tarmoh.
Is anyone watching this on tape delay on NBC. I can't believe everyone just celebrated when they tied for gold. Isn't the point of sport to beat everyone else?
I think it would be incredible tv is they had them do a runoff like Felix - Tarmoh.
They beat ALMOST everybody else.
GET OFF MY LAWN!
Just admit it man, you're a professional internet troll. "Everyone is a winner"? How about "two people were a winner, and it doesn't happen that often."
According to Wikipedia ties for gold medals have occured 29 times at the Summer Olympics and 8 times at the Winter Olympics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ties_for_medals_at_the_Olympics
Also according to Wikipedia, there have been 18,538 medals awarded for both Olympic games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table
So a tie for a gold medal has happened in .2% of all medals awarded.
[(29+8)/ 18,538] x 100= .2 %
Hard to believe in 2018 bobsled doesn't use a timing system that goes to the thousandth of a second.
rojo wrote:
Is anyone watching this on tape delay on NBC. I can't believe everyone just celebrated when they tied for gold. Isn't the point of sport to beat everyone else?
I think it would be incredible tv is they had them do a runoff like Felix - Tarmoh.
I'm sure ties are so rare in the bobsled they don't have anything in the rules about a sled off.
And the bobsled isn't a big money sport. Talk to some of the guys who do the bobsled and they are all just happy go lucky guys working hard and having fun. Sure, they want to win for their own pride, but in terms of money, first and last are about the same.
Yes, I am kidding you. The mantra to which you refer hardly extends anywhere, except in your prematurely grumpy old geezer imagination.
notafatty wrote:
GET OFF MY LAWN!
TURN OFF THAT DEVIL MUSIC! STOP THAT RACKET!
Jokerman wrote:
Yes, I am kidding you. The mantra to which you refer hardly extends anywhere, except in your prematurely grumpy old geezer imagination.
Kids vs. old geezers: ageism drips in that^ post.
rojo wrote:
Is anyone watching this on tape delay on NBC. I can't believe everyone just celebrated when they tied for gold. Isn't the point of sport to beat everyone else?
I think it would be incredible tv is they had them do a runoff like Felix - Tarmoh.
Actually, the point and official motto of the Olympics is "Faster, Higher, Stronger." To be really old school about it, the medal awards are just a sideshow to great athletes doing their best.
A runoff in this situation would not be exciting. It would just be two more solo time trials. Its quite possible the track is scheduled for other events and also possible athletes will compete in the 4 man events as well.
No need to drag things out. Two teams get a shared gold. No silver. One team gets a bronze. Every one else in the event gets to call themself an Olympian. Sounds reasonable to me.
In time trial situations, it would be silly to use anything less than a hundredth of a second to determine awards.
rojo wrote:
Is anyone watching this on tape delay on NBC. I can't believe everyone just celebrated when they tied for gold. Isn't the point of sport to beat everyone else?
I think it would be incredible tv is they had them do a runoff like Felix - Tarmoh.
You remain a complete idiot.
rojo wins again.
Couldn’t agree more. When will it end. Going down to the nanosecond? If it would have been declared a tie 50 years ago, that’s good enough for me. And there never was a runoff between Felix and Tarmoh. Tarmoh was declared the winner by the man in charge of making the call, it was posted, she was draped with an American flag, hifived half the Hayward Field crowd and then got shafted.
Rojo- step back from what you are saying, take a deep breath and hold until you black out.
stop being a douche rojo.
They should both tie for silver, no gold awarded since neither could manage to *win*.
it gets to be splitting hairs past one hundreds of a second-interesting in the '72 games in Munich swimming was determined by thousanths-but an American lost by 2 one thousanths of a second to a Swede Gunnar Larsson-a fingernail-rules were changed to 1/100 ths afterwards; I believed most sports after followed this pattern, though timing technology by the late '60s could measure much smaller differences; if you have to go in lower increments to decide it should be a tie in my opinion! It doesn't happen very often, but it is kinda cool with 2 winners!
I sometimes wonder, when I read posts like this, is rojo
(i) retarded or
(ii) enjoys trolling his own message board?
what do you think? I don't know him well enough.
Threads like this are why rojo has one of the best responses/thread ratio on all of LRC.
They're both winners.
Rojo, on the other hand, is a loser.