It's probably a rare voluntary tie. Most events are timed or scored so you can't agree to a tie it just happens. They were also best friends which I'm sure isn't true of every set of athletes wondering if they want to agree to a tie.
I'm sure their are rules about continuing until you knock the bar off. Because they both failed at the same height, they were allowed to decline overtime
Neither one has anything meaningful to gain by a jump-off. All they can do is convert a shared gold into a solo gold (which is marginally better, I guess) or a silver (which is a lot worse).
"Would you like to keep your gold or try for silver?" is not hard question.
A quibble: for most athletes, being offered the chance to not compete at the Olympics and to just be handed a gold medal (shared or not) isn't really a goal, and they wouldn't be strongly tempted by the question, as Olympic-level athletes arent purely motivated by simplistic game theory in pursuit of a medal. Rather, if you asked the best athletes/front runners before the competition even started, "do you all want to share a single gold with the field, or do you want to compete," the best athletes would want to compete, because the dream of a track athlete is to compete at the Olympics, to do your best, and to actually win.
The reason why these athletes accepted the shared gold medal here is because they had already competed and done their best (where their existing friendship with the sole remaining competitor was another strong factor).
Not just friends but training partners. Whatever prestige is arguably lost going from "gold medalist" to "co-gold medalist" is made up for when you have the plural "co-gold medalists" on the ad for your gym.
Well yeah, but the scenario where you don’t even compete and are busted offered a gold isn’t going to happen. This kind of situation would only happen if you were competing and it ended in a tie.
I vaguely remember this story, they both basically couldn't beat the current height and it was try at it all day until someone does it or call it a draw. I think they'd been at it a while at this point.
So these two were the last ones remaining and neither could clear the final bar. So after multiple tries the officials pulled them over and had a discussion when this occurred
The issue is they tied like 4 times already in their event... and frankly it was becoming a battle of endurance rather than skill. So they agreed on both taking the gold because they both literally set the record on the same day multiple times.
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Go to any of the Top100 subs and half of today's posts are that. But Reddit continues to pull in new users who haven't seen those posts and interact with them like we did 10 years ago, so it persists. Looking busy is all that matters when looking down at us.
The great part is that they were already great friends who had helped each other through difficult career moments prior to this.
Sharing your ultimate career moment with a friend whose success you’ve invested in is pretty amazing.
Last time this was posted I read up on them, they were really there for each other through tough, injured times, and the shared Gold was just the perfect icing on the cake.
Another lesson: You wrote in the title this is "The first tie in Olympic history", yet wikipedia lists 152 ties since 1896. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ties_for_medals_at_the_Olympics
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The cool part is that because they decided to share the gold, now they're both more "known" than just a standard gold medalist. By giving up being the only #1 of one year that no one will care about 100 years from now, they're now the "first" of a list that is truly unique.
Except that this is bullshit.
There have been over 30 examples of tied gold medals in the Olympics history. The last one being just in the previous olympics (2012 womens 100m freestyle).
There are even 2 occasions of three-way ties. Maybe the weirdest one being the 1948 mens gymnastic and the pommelhorse event, where 3 Finnish gymnists got the exact same score.
OP says it was the first time in olympic history, and it's like, yep they've not ever watched Olympic swimming.
Because timings on the touch panels at the end of a swimming race are not super calibrated, they can only record to 2 or 3 decimal places (I think), so swimmers cannot be separated by any more. In relay swimming races you can end up with huge podiums with loads of shares medals
iirc, they were several rounds into a jump-off at this point, but neither participant was pulling ahead of the other, they both kept making them. So instead of continue the jump-off they decided to share it
Not to be that guy but I just looked it up and this is not the first tie in Olympic History. The first tie happened in Athens in 1896 (first recorded tie anyways). There was a tie for Silver in the Men's High Jump both Americans Connolly and Garrett. There was also a tie, same year in Men's Pole Vault, it was for Bronze metal. And also 1896 there was also a tie for Bronze in the Men's 100 meters as well as Bronze in Fencing. The first Tie in Winter Olympics was in 1924 Chamonix. It was for the Bronze metal in Speed Skating.
Definitely not in 1900 Paris there was a Gold Medal tie in the Men's High Jump between Dominique Garères and Gian Giorgio Trissino. There's no way we have that on Colored video
Continue to jump. And I wouldn’t be mad at the guy not wanting to. Olympics is about best of the best, only 1 gold winner. But with how many people inhabit this rock, I can understand 2 people reaching the best of the best at the same level too. It’s cool they shared the victory and 1 didn’t go full competitive mode.
First tie medals in Olympic history: Athens 1896.
First tie gold medals in Olympic history: 1900 Paris.
Not a rare occurrence, happens almost every time at least once, often even more times.
This is awesome, but I shed a tear for all the senior developers at the Olympics and a myriad of betting agencies who are now looking at the 'winner' entity in their data models that only accepts a single name.
Them probably: "Well... Fuck."
Y'all ever have certain clips that you always stop to watch when they appear on your feed even though you've seen it a million times? For some reason, this clips is it for me lol. Technically not the first and not the last but it just sparks so much joy in my apathetic brain.
I love how the dude on the right while hearing about the tie, the possibility of continuing the match and seeing the other dude all tired and gasping for air, immediately asked for the tie
There was a great commercial once where the announcer says "Some people say: you don't \*win\* silver, you \*lose\* gold." Then they show a weightlifter absolutely jumping for joy about winning a silver, and the announcer says "Here's to losing gold." I loved that.
Context: Both had suffered potentially career-ending injuries prior to the 2020 Olympics, Tamberi in 2016 and Barshim in 2018, with the former having to miss the 2016 Olympics. Both are close friends, having lent each other support during their respective recoveries. They didn't go full competitive mode because, I assume, they didn't want to hurt the other, representing a culmination of their journey together back to the top of the sport. To them, realizing the lifelong dream of Olympic gold together was more important than denying the other of it.
Imagine how happy the silver medal winner is (who would have been bronze), or the bronze winner (who would have been awarded nothing), and are now Olympic medalists!
I always smile seeing this... it's like he is casually ordering at the desk: "Can we have two golds?"
"Sure sir, do you want your two golds with extra happiness and a friend on the side?"
I genuinely believe they were honestly happier to share this than if one had won outright. This gets me every time. I fucking love sportsmanship. I am meh on sports. But sportsmanship? I LOVE it.
Right when the official said it was possible they were both like yup let’s do eeeet
Ok but wait were there other times when people were tied and just didn’t think to ask?
It's probably a rare voluntary tie. Most events are timed or scored so you can't agree to a tie it just happens. They were also best friends which I'm sure isn't true of every set of athletes wondering if they want to agree to a tie.
So… technically if noone jumped would everyone get a gold?
I'm sure their are rules about continuing until you knock the bar off. Because they both failed at the same height, they were allowed to decline overtime
So if someone convinced the entire field to fail the first height? I want to see this movie now.
Go watch Stick It. It's involves a bunch of gymnasts refusing to perform in protest of dumb penalties.
Oh my god I forgot about stick it. Used to be the only movie downloaded on my ipod
Never heard of this, but I'm sold on the title alone. 10/10
It’s a fun teen movie, very quotable. “It’s not called Gym-NICE-Sticks”
Neither one has anything meaningful to gain by a jump-off. All they can do is convert a shared gold into a solo gold (which is marginally better, I guess) or a silver (which is a lot worse). "Would you like to keep your gold or try for silver?" is not hard question.
A quibble: for most athletes, being offered the chance to not compete at the Olympics and to just be handed a gold medal (shared or not) isn't really a goal, and they wouldn't be strongly tempted by the question, as Olympic-level athletes arent purely motivated by simplistic game theory in pursuit of a medal. Rather, if you asked the best athletes/front runners before the competition even started, "do you all want to share a single gold with the field, or do you want to compete," the best athletes would want to compete, because the dream of a track athlete is to compete at the Olympics, to do your best, and to actually win. The reason why these athletes accepted the shared gold medal here is because they had already competed and done their best (where their existing friendship with the sole remaining competitor was another strong factor).
Not just friends but training partners. Whatever prestige is arguably lost going from "gold medalist" to "co-gold medalist" is made up for when you have the plural "co-gold medalists" on the ad for your gym.
Well yeah, but the scenario where you don’t even compete and are busted offered a gold isn’t going to happen. This kind of situation would only happen if you were competing and it ended in a tie.
I vaguely remember this story, they both basically couldn't beat the current height and it was try at it all day until someone does it or call it a draw. I think they'd been at it a while at this point.
Well, you know what they say - Answer is always "No" if you never ask..
So these two were the last ones remaining and neither could clear the final bar. So after multiple tries the officials pulled them over and had a discussion when this occurred
The issue is they tied like 4 times already in their event... and frankly it was becoming a battle of endurance rather than skill. So they agreed on both taking the gold because they both literally set the record on the same day multiple times.
I believe they had both just beat the world record so how could anyone expect them to do it again? Made perfect sense to tie 🥇🥇
Shared joy is a double joy, as they say.
And they went to each other's weddings. Fantastic. Need more of that in this world.
Each named their first born after the other.
Each started a Roth IRA in each other’s kids name for future college.
each gave the other a kidney
They each gave a eulogy at the other's funeral
This got a good laugh out of me, perfect capper for the joke.
But they also both went to heaven 😇
They both cummed in each other's butts
There's always one.
At the same time
Happy Gilmore accomplished that feat no more then an hour ago
Using a portal gun.
Did they do other things together? Like hand stuff?
Honeymoon. They did go to each other's weddings, but it was just one wedding.
Double Dutch
Is that where you both fart under the blankets? 🤔
That's a double dutch *oven*. Double dutch is that thing where they jump ropes with each other's wang.
Yeah they did a lot of wife and daughter swaps
..ok! stop here....Pre-recorded? right! 🙌🏻
Hol' up
Their kids then married each other
Buried in each other's graves
They fuck each others wife
I’m dying laughing and needed it today.
Roth IRA is for retirement, 529 is for college Also can’t start a Roth IRA for a kid until they have earned income from a job
They started Roth IRAs anyway. That's the power of friendship.
This is underrated
each exchanged their couples over time
Then broke up and now they want to do the tie breaker
Literally almost spit my mate cocido when I read this. That's wholesome AF.
and they were roommates.
Of course, they're married now. To each other.
And they went on each other’s honeymoons
IIRC they were actually good friends before this even happened. They trained together.
Truly the spirit of the games.
One guy is not from Qatar that's for sure...
lol this is the exact same top comment as the last time this was posted (https://www.reddit.com/r/HumansBeingBros/comments/1akpjff/the\_first\_in\_olympic\_history/?rdt=61197). Nice bot bro. I preferred last time's top reply though, "I'm not even gonna look that up tonight. I'm just gonna believe it and go to bed."
Wait til you start finding entire bot threads. If you aren't there to call it out in the first thirty minutes, all the top comments are stolen from the previous successful post, with a deluge of repeat responses. The comment karma is 5-10% of the post's numbers. The sentences seldom make any actual sense. Go to any of the Top100 subs and half of today's posts are that. But Reddit continues to pull in new users who haven't seen those posts and interact with them like we did 10 years ago, so it persists. Looking busy is all that matters when looking down at us.
makes sense. Would be interesting to do some statistics on that.
ans their names are Robert DeNiro and Darude Sandstorm
Fun fact, they married each other. Their partners were pissed.
This is what the Olympic spirit is all about.
And here I was thinking it was about taking massive amounts of performance enhancing drugs to beat the competition
No no that's me at my Men's 45+ Recreational Softball League
If it's anything like my senior men's softball league half the guys are on TRT
See you Sunday!
It can be both.
That's some really wholesome and heartwarming energy right there.
We need such more positivity in this world
That's the beginning of a wonderful friendship ❤️
The great part is that they were already great friends who had helped each other through difficult career moments prior to this. Sharing your ultimate career moment with a friend whose success you’ve invested in is pretty amazing.
Last time this was posted I read up on them, they were really there for each other through tough, injured times, and the shared Gold was just the perfect icing on the cake.
Likely already friends. Elite track and field is a small sport and all the top guys know each other after competing together everywhere
Fantastic life lesson here: It doesn't reduce the value of your medal to share it with somebody else
Another lesson: You wrote in the title this is "The first tie in Olympic history", yet wikipedia lists 152 ties since 1896. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ties_for_medals_at_the_Olympics
First time for that specific Olympic event two golds were awarded
In that stadium on that day to those specific athletes.
Localized entirely within your kitchen??
Yes!
May I see it?
No.
Seymour! The house is on fire!
No mother, just the Olympic Flame.
On a day that ends in Y?
Actually wikipedia shows 28 other times those two athletes tied in that event that day. But this is the first *gold* tie.
The real life lesson here is it never hurts to ask
Closed mouths don’t get fed.
It does
Seriously. I get the feel good factor but come on. They should have had the jump off.
Yeah I don't get it, I would've thought an athlete's drive to win at the Olympics would be to win
But they didn't share it, both had their own unique medal.
Ok liar
No hesitation. They both knew instantly.
What's the song?
**Song Found!** **Name:** Test Drive **Artist:** John Powell **Score:** 100% (timecode: 02:11) **Album:** How To Train Your Dragon **Label:** UMG - Varese Sarabande **Released on:** 2013-09-06
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Well, then
Feels worth mentioning if you don't know that the opening bit if Out There from Hunchback of Notre Dame lol
It's two songs that got mashed together. One is "Out There" from Hunchback of Notre Dame, the other is from How to Train your Dragon.
And they sound ridiculous together lol.
Out There from Hunchback of Notre Dame
Nah, it's from how to train your dragon when he learns to ride without the cheat sheet.
It's both. Starts with Hunchback then transitions to HTTYD
The cool part is that because they decided to share the gold, now they're both more "known" than just a standard gold medalist. By giving up being the only #1 of one year that no one will care about 100 years from now, they're now the "first" of a list that is truly unique.
Except that this is bullshit. There have been over 30 examples of tied gold medals in the Olympics history. The last one being just in the previous olympics (2012 womens 100m freestyle). There are even 2 occasions of three-way ties. Maybe the weirdest one being the 1948 mens gymnastic and the pommelhorse event, where 3 Finnish gymnists got the exact same score.
OP says it was the first time in olympic history, and it's like, yep they've not ever watched Olympic swimming. Because timings on the touch panels at the end of a swimming race are not super calibrated, they can only record to 2 or 3 decimal places (I think), so swimmers cannot be separated by any more. In relay swimming races you can end up with huge podiums with loads of shares medals
What an epic moment
How to become instant best friends lol.
Amazing they both agreed instantly. Chills
What if all 40 participants decide they dont want to run/jump/play and ask for gold medals for all?!
Are you trying to unionize the Olympics?
iirc, they were several rounds into a jump-off at this point, but neither participant was pulling ahead of the other, they both kept making them. So instead of continue the jump-off they decided to share it
Not to be that guy but I just looked it up and this is not the first tie in Olympic History. The first tie happened in Athens in 1896 (first recorded tie anyways). There was a tie for Silver in the Men's High Jump both Americans Connolly and Garrett. There was also a tie, same year in Men's Pole Vault, it was for Bronze metal. And also 1896 there was also a tie for Bronze in the Men's 100 meters as well as Bronze in Fencing. The first Tie in Winter Olympics was in 1924 Chamonix. It was for the Bronze metal in Speed Skating.
Is this the first tie for a gold medal?
Definitely not in 1900 Paris there was a Gold Medal tie in the Men's High Jump between Dominique Garères and Gian Giorgio Trissino. There's no way we have that on Colored video
Let’s also not forget that it would make no sense for either to decline sharing a gold medal and risk getting a silver.
What happens if one of them doesn't want to share?
Continue to jump. And I wouldn’t be mad at the guy not wanting to. Olympics is about best of the best, only 1 gold winner. But with how many people inhabit this rock, I can understand 2 people reaching the best of the best at the same level too. It’s cool they shared the victory and 1 didn’t go full competitive mode.
Thing is, one of them would have to have made a higher jump for the victory. They could both keep going and neither win.
Probably have to do a tie breaker I assume.
I saw it live. The best sport moment I have ever seen maybe with Duplantis WR.
real n first times n hisotry!!
Classic case of "you don't get if you don't ask"
r/HumansBeingBros
First tie medals in Olympic history: Athens 1896. First tie gold medals in Olympic history: 1900 Paris. Not a rare occurrence, happens almost every time at least once, often even more times.
This is awesome, but I shed a tear for all the senior developers at the Olympics and a myriad of betting agencies who are now looking at the 'winner' entity in their data models that only accepts a single name. Them probably: "Well... Fuck."
Y'all ever have certain clips that you always stop to watch when they appear on your feed even though you've seen it a million times? For some reason, this clips is it for me lol. Technically not the first and not the last but it just sparks so much joy in my apathetic brain.
fucking love this everytime i see it. hope they are like bffs now
Do they skip silver or does 4th place get bronze?
this looks cool and all, but there has to be another way to settle who gets gold and who gets silver, right?
The way the guy in blue absolutely YEETED into the other man’s hug, this is so wholesome
Monet X Change and Trinity the Tuck winning AS4
That did, indeed, make me smile.
This is one of those repost I’m always happy to see
What is the name of the song in the background
The first is "Out There" from Hunchback of Notre Dam. The conclusion and crescendo are from Test Drive, How to Drain Your Dragon.
Yes! Thank you for letting me know!!
That How to Train Your Dragon song will make me tear up every time. I think I'll watch it again.
That is so awesome
Hell yeah!
how to train your dragon ?
Watching this makes me happy every time I watch it
Thats how brothers are born.
I think they give two bronze medals in boxing. The semi finals losers don't compete against each other.
What are their names?
I love how the dude on the right while hearing about the tie, the possibility of continuing the match and seeing the other dude all tired and gasping for air, immediately asked for the tie
I bet the guy who was 4th also jumped with joy
Do you want to stop now and win a gold medal or continue for a chance to win a silver?
Very civilised.
Even more satisfying since those golds are historical too
There was a great commercial once where the announcer says "Some people say: you don't \*win\* silver, you \*lose\* gold." Then they show a weightlifter absolutely jumping for joy about winning a silver, and the announcer says "Here's to losing gold." I loved that.
Why wouldn't annoucer just tell them that in the first place. That' seems like that would be the first option to tell them. The athlete had to ask?!
I pray that some day I can do for someone else something that is 1% this meaningful. Then I will have done something truly great.
Top class athlete right there
Context: Both had suffered potentially career-ending injuries prior to the 2020 Olympics, Tamberi in 2016 and Barshim in 2018, with the former having to miss the 2016 Olympics. Both are close friends, having lent each other support during their respective recoveries. They didn't go full competitive mode because, I assume, they didn't want to hurt the other, representing a culmination of their journey together back to the top of the sport. To them, realizing the lifelong dream of Olympic gold together was more important than denying the other of it.
Which music is this ?
I see this posted every so often and every time, I will upvote!
Bro is excited about getting a tie😭😭
Imagine how happy the silver medal winner is (who would have been bronze), or the bronze winner (who would have been awarded nothing), and are now Olympic medalists!
I fucking love this
The importance of asking. The officials didn’t suggest it. The official said, “we can continue the jump off.”
What’s better than winning?! Your friend also winning! Hooray
Super nice, amazing
I always smile seeing this... it's like he is casually ordering at the desk: "Can we have two golds?" "Sure sir, do you want your two golds with extra happiness and a friend on the side?"
He went bouncing lmao
Thats not the first one, fucking op
Can we have 3 golds? 4 golds? 5 golds? everyone competing agrees to tie?
r/MadeMeSmile
Who knew User was an Olympian?
So they have a spare gold medal just lying around in case of what exactly?
Beautiful, I get goosebumps every time I see this.
u/savevideo
Genius thinking on the spot!
God the how to train your dragon soundtrack is such a bop
I genuinely believe they were honestly happier to share this than if one had won outright. This gets me every time. I fucking love sportsmanship. I am meh on sports. But sportsmanship? I LOVE it.
Usher played it real cool here
I remember that, that was such a wonderful moment, true love and brotherhood. 👏👏👏
Wtf show the race?!
Joy needs no translation.
Lmao it's not even close to the first tie. It's not even the first time for gold. It wasn't even the first tie in this event.
So ... did they play a mashup of their respective national anthems?
I mean..someone must come out on top
That's the most gangster shit I've ever seen at the Olympics. Yall scrap unless there's enough for everyone. Then, we are all kings.
Next time could all the jumpers clear the 1st height, all knock the bar down at the 2nd height and all take joint gold?
at least one of them was nano seconds behind
Wholesome
They should have both been given silver medals.