(08-24-2023, 02:35 AM)LP link Wrote:Did I hear there was some controversy about that result?
I actually haven't seen the vision yet.
Not so much a controversy....
The two top athletes agreed to share the gold rather than go to a jump off.
I haven't heard anything other than that.
That's quite within the rules.
In a previous existence I coached the event for about twenty years.
If after reaching the maximum height the athletes can't be separated on count back (number of misses at lower heights) the bar is not raised but lowered until someone clears and the other doesn't.
It's a bugger of a way to decide it and quite taxing.
The agreement to share is a sensible compromise...and takes nothing away from the achievement.
A similar thing happened at the Olympics in the men's High Jump.