Was there a tie for a gold medal at the Olympics today?

[diabeticman]

My wife and I are Boycotting watching the Olympics because of Russia cruel treatment of the LGBT community BUT a friend of mine who thinks our boycott is stupid told us there was a tie for Olympic gold.


Is that true?


Does anyone know how often that happens?


What does the medal ceremony look like? (just curious)

[Electric Monk]

1. Google news says yes

http://espn.go.com/olympics/winter/2014/alpine/story/_/id/10442033/2014-sochi-olympics-unprecedented-tie-gold-women-downhill-slovenia-tina-maze-switzerland-dominique-gisin

[diabeticman]

2. Thanks I can get this page and two others right now on my computer.

[Brother Buzz]

7. There's a bar bet in that

Name the one event at the 2014 Sochi Olympics where no silver medal was awarded.

[elleng]

3. Yes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/sports/olympics/womens-downhill-historic-tie.html

[diabeticman]

4. Thanks for the link hopefully my computer will let me open it later?

[elleng]

5. SORRY!

First Tie for Alpine Gold, Though Not Precisely

A tie is not uncommon in most sports. Without it there would be no overtime, no extra innings and no sudden death. But a tie for the gold medal in an Alpine Olympic event had never occurred before Wednesday’s women’s downhill at the Sochi Games.

When Tina Maze of Slovenia, a favorite in the event, descended the racecourse in the late morning, she was chasing the little-known early leader, Dominique Gisin of Switzerland. As Maze crossed the finish line, a giant scoreboard over her shoulder pronounced her time as 1 minute 41.57 seconds. It then flashed a No. 1 next to Maze’s name — and a No. 1 next to Gisin’s name.
The racers had identical times.

Or did they?

In a glass-enclosed timing booth perched at the top of the grandstand next to the finish, the times for Maze and Gisin were measured and recorded to the 10,000th of a second: four digits to the right of the decimal point, not just two. As Daniel Baumat, vice president of Swiss Timing, the company that administers the timed results for the Olympic Games and many other sports, said late Wednesday: “There is a more precise number, to the 10,000th. But the rule is to report to the hundredths. We follow the rule.”
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[diabeticman]

6. Thanks.

I am going to have to get this laptop checked for viruses

[sabrina 1]

8. Yes, there was. It was an amazing moment. I'm not sure if it has ever happened before, but

I was happy for both the Gold Medalists.

That Olympics are amazing this year. I am so proud of people like Scott Hammilton eg, and most of our sports analysts, who unlike some of our MSM 'stenographers' , actually make this country look good. They are so fair in their coverage, giving credit to the great athletes who have worked so hard for so many years to get to this point, even when they are rooting for the American athletes naturally, but give credit to those who deserve it.

I truly wish our country was represented by people like this. I feel so proud of this country when I listen to them after feeling so embarrassed by people like Bob Costas who read the memos he received dutifully and made this country look like the 'bad fairy at the ball' while all over the world people were focused on the games.

I hope the world knows, and I think they do, that the American people are not a part of this pettiness and are rooting for their athletes and enjoying the beautiful spectacle, like everyone else in the world, while also being willing to give credit to athletes from other countries when they deserve it.

It reminds me of when Bush and his band of war criminals started the war in Iraq despite the best efforts of those of us who opposed it. Someone started a blog where people who had opposed it apologized to the World, holding up photos of themselves with signs saying 'We're Sorry'. The world responded, saying they didn't blame the American people and they were rooting for us.

Anyhow, yes, that was amazing to watch, it was the women's downhill skiing I believe where seconds can separate someone from the silver or the gold.

Edited to say: A DUer just pointed out to me that I should have said 'where a fraction of a second' rather than 'seconds' can separate someone from the silver of the gold.

[jmowreader]

9. There was

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gold-medal-tie-women-downhill-120909787.html;_ylt=A0SO8xdNUfxS_WEAwJBXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0MHNsYnF1BHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1NNRTMyMF8x

Tina Maze of Slovenia and Dominique Gisin of Switzerland ran the downhill ski course in 1 minute, 41.57 seconds.

It doesn't happen very often; the last time was in the Mittlympics' 30 km Nordic skiathlon.