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- Jun 16, 2010
I absolutely hate the new tiebreakers down to thousands of second. In the speed skating this has been especialy evident. In the mens 500 and mens 1500 the gold was decided by going down to thousands, and the final Dutch skater crossed the line thinking they had a gold medal and had it taken away half a minute later. If athletes are so close you cant even seperate them by the immediate main clock, you should award 2 medals. Why is the IOC so adverse to ties they come up with anything to prevent them. Are they going bankrupt, and cant afford the cost of the extra medals. Gymnastics now are even worse with this complicated tiebreaking formula.
I was so happy to see Denny Morrison win another medal with his bronze in the 1500, but felt horrible for the last Dutch skater to be bumped out of the gold with the Polish skater by the stupid new thousands tiebreaker. The mens 500 was even worse as the skater who had crossed was originally over a hundredth of second ahead, but was bumped to over a hundredth of a second behind, as this new tiebreaking timer apparently can even overrule the main timing device (and if that is so how can one even be sure it is accurate, another reason it is a bad thing).
I was so happy to see Denny Morrison win another medal with his bronze in the 1500, but felt horrible for the last Dutch skater to be bumped out of the gold with the Polish skater by the stupid new thousands tiebreaker. The mens 500 was even worse as the skater who had crossed was originally over a hundredth of second ahead, but was bumped to over a hundredth of a second behind, as this new tiebreaking timer apparently can even overrule the main timing device (and if that is so how can one even be sure it is accurate, another reason it is a bad thing).