SOCHI 2014: Brother's Keeper

This bit of awesome that I just had to share with you today, is from the Olympics. This all happened during the finals of the Men's Cross-Country Skiing Sprint.



Russian Skiier, Anton Gafarov, crashed during the race.



Really, really hard his left ski was badly damaged.



He tried to go down...



...and then, BOOM!



He fell down again and the ski broke in half!



And just when it looked like he was going to have to quit the race...



...a Canadian coach by the name: Justin Wadsworth, ran out to the course with a replacement ski...



...put it on for him...



...and Gafarov was able to finish the race – albeit 3 minutes behind the leaders.



It was warming watching him receive a standing ovation as he reached the finish line.



When Wadsworth was asked why he did this, he said:



Conclusively, two things:

1. I love good sportsmanship, and

2. I love Canadians!

SOCHI 2014: A Gold Medal Tie

History was made at the SOCHI 2014 Olympics. The Olympic alpine skiing event ended in a gold medal tie. That being Tina Maze of Slovenia, and Dominique Gisin of Switzerland.



They both went down the course in one minute, forty one point five seven seconds (1:41.57).



Although, for them they have a technology now to break down the times to one-one thousandth of a second to find the true winner, so it seems unfair that they wouldn't do that.

The reason why the Olympics chose to award the sport's first ever tie for gold, instead of breaking the times down even further, is because why the technology exists to break the times down to one-one thousandth of a second, that equates to about one inch, at downhill speeds, which is within the margin of error.

So, if the finish line isn't perfectly straight, it'd be hard to decide the true winner.

Olympic historian, Bill Mallon explains:



Nonetheless, earlier last week, the 1/1000ths were used to decide the Men's 500m speed skating race. How do you explain that? You think it's fair for the 1000th of a second to be used in some sports, but not others? Lemme know in the comments down below. Don't forget to tap that share button.