This is so lame on so many levels.
Medals for everyone. Trophies for everyone.
Kind of surprised the Officials don’t have a further countback rule to break the tie, i.e. see who was successful in fewer attempts at the height prior to that, etc, etc.
The correct solution would have been to let them share silver.
Did they get a room afterwards ?
I think this is a cool thing! They both competed and basically had a tie…I believe it shows true sportsmanship.
We are witnessing the end of the Olympics. Not witnessing in the watching sense but in the knowing.
Dead heats happen all the time in horseracing. They each tried 3 times to beat each other and could not. Not a bad ending. They both tried their best and decided to chop it up. Ties do in fact happen in some sports.
You can both share the sliver, but there can only be one gold
You get a gold, and you get a gold, and you get a gold, everyone here gets a gold... Way to cheapen an already cheapened olympics gold metal.. can we give them both a putzler peace prize too while were just giving away sht? Bow about a gold for the prettiest leotard too??
I wonder how Draft Kings handled this on the payouts....
Glad I am not watching this Olympics.
Pistols at 10 paces.
Solomon would say “Cut the medal in half and give each a half.”
These days, when everyone and their dog seems to be ready to criticize or malign others, I liked seeing what I perceived to be an act of good will.
WTH?
Did everyone else get a participation medal, too?
Sheesh
American Xander Shauffele won the gold! Congratulations to a patriotic American.
I cannot believe the level of cynicism in these comments. They both did their best and neither could beat the other. They agreed to share the top shelf. I can’t see that as anything but the Utmost good sportsmanship.
If the third place finishers (7 of them) in the Olympic golf tournament, that ended in the wee hours of the morning today NY time (evening hours in Japan) had asked to share the bronze prize, there would have been 7 bronze medalists in golf, instead of the single bronze award that went to CT Pan (Taiwan) (after a play off among the 7).
The gold went to Xander Schauffele and the silver went to Rory Sabbatini. Rory is from Italy but was playing for Slovenia this time (his wife’s homeland and where Rory has taken a 2nd citizenship as well). Rory said he was playing for Slovenia because he is trying to boost the popularity of golf in Slovenia. Winning silver in golf for Slovenia at the Olympics may help Rory do that.
Sorry for the golf interruption on this high jump thread, though it is another Olympic story too.