Fun Olympics ｜ Olympic surprise tied for first place! But whose national anthem should be played first？
CCTV News:This morning (August 12th), Beijing time, in the women’s 100m freestyle final of the Rio Olympic Games, American Manuel and Canadian Olesia tied for the championship with a time of 52.70 seconds.
According to the rules of swimming competition formulated by the International Swimming Federation, if the percentile seconds of athletes’ performance are still the same, the rankings are tied. Accurate enough to get the same results, it is also doomed that these two people must be "together" on the podium!
△ American player Manuel (left) and Canadian player Olesia, who was also the first post-00 player to win a gold medal in the Olympic Games. (After seeing 00, I have braved the wind and waves to win the Olympic gold medal. After 80, Xiaobian said that there is an unspeakable taste in my heart …)
However, the problem also came. At the time of awarding prizes, the podium also presented some different scenes … …
First of all, you can’t see the runner-up on the podium.
According to the rules, if there is a tied champion, the final ranking will automatically skip the runner-up and go directly to the third place. So on the podium, you will only see three people — — Two tied champions, and Sweden’s Sjostrom who won the third place.
Second, how to hang the national flag?
According to our general logic, this problem should be hung in parallel. However, there are exceptions. If there is not enough space for hanging poles, the national flag of the tied champion country will be hung up and down. For example, this time is
As for why the American flag is on the top and Canada is on the bottom, it should be arranged alphabetically according to the players’ surnames. American player Simone Manuel’s surname begins with "M", while Canadian player Penny Oleksiak begins with "O". In the English alphabet, M comes before O.
However, from the picture, as the champion of Canada, the position of the national flag is already lower than that of the third runner-up Sweden. I wonder if the Canadian national flag will have some shadow areas in its heart at this time. ……
Third, how to play the national anthem?
This problem is also a problem that netizens are very worried about after the emergence of the tied champion today.
There are several ways to solve this problem in general international competitions: first, like the sorting of national flags, they are sorted by the initials of athletes’ surnames and played in turn; The second is to let the players toss a coin to decide which country’s national anthem to play first.
This time, we adopted the first method, playing star-spangled banner first and then Canadian.
What are the "tied champions" in previous Olympic Games?
In fact, it is not the first time that there has been a tie champion in the Olympic swimming competition. In the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Nancy Hogshid and Kelly Sternseff of the United States tied for the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle. In the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Gray Hall Jr. and Anthony Irwin of the United States tied for the 50-meter freestyle champion.
However, when it comes to the "big family" who tied for the championship at the Olympic Games, gymnastics is the only one. For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, it was born in the gymnastics field of the London Olympic Games in 1948, and it was also a three-person tied champion!
At that time, three Finnish players in the men’s pommel horse had the same points and tied for the gold medal. This three-person tie for the championship has only appeared twice in the Olympic history of more than 100 years. Another time, at the Seoul Olympic Games in 1988, Bilo Zelcev from the Soviet Union, Hungarian Bolkai and Bulgarian Glascoff stood on the highest podium of the men’s pommel horse with a score of 19.950.
Chinese gymnasts are also the leading role in the tied championship. In the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, Li Ning shared the pommel horse and rings with other countries, while Ma Yanhong shared the women’s uneven bars gold medal with American rivals.
△ Li Ning
△ Ma Yanhong
In addition to gymnastics, weightlifting has been tied for the championship twice without carefully measuring the weight of the players themselves. In Amsterdam Olympic Games in 1928, weightlifting was divided into snatch and clean and jerk for the first time. As a result, in the contest of 67.5 kg, German Hoerbiger and Austrian Haas scored exactly the same, and their initial estimated weight was the same, so they could only be tied for the championship. Six years later, it was another contest at this level. Austrian Finn and Egyptian Mesbach shared the gold medal again.
(This article Source: CCTV News Comprehensive, Jiefang Daily, titan sports)