Not a single medal for Mikaela Shiffrin if im correct?
I was watching the Mixed Team Parallel (Slalom) yesterday. The rules seem ridiculous! If they made more sense, she would have a bronze.
Each team has 2 men and 2 women. Shiffrin fell down about 3 gates from the end. The woman from Norway that she was racing also fell down about 1/2 second later. Both were disqualified for missing a gate. The announcers said that according to the rules, Norway "won" that heat because their skier made it farther down the hill, even though she completed no more gates than Shiffrin did. That was the first thing that I didn't like. How do you win if both skiers were DQed and both skiers completed the same number of gates?
In the fourth heat, the US man won by finishing first, making it 2-2. The skier for Norway fell down in the middle, missing a gate and he never finished because you get DQed. So three people from the US completed the 21 gates to two from Norway. Norway got the bronze because their single times for their man and woman were faster than the best times of the three posted by the US.
I think of it this way. In boxing, if you knock down your opponent more times than he knocks you down, you usually win the boxing match. But yesterday I saw the US team complete the course three times to Norway's two, yet Norway gets the bronze medal. It is a skiing contest and Norway fell down twice! Yet they won one heat and lost one of those two heats.
It made me wonder what would have happened if Norway had only one skier of their four complete the course? I am imagining that it would be "He had the fastest time, so Norway wins the bronze medal, even though 3 of their 4 skiers slid down the hill on their butts!".
BTW, the Blue course was noticeably faster than the Red course. I would say about 0.5 - 0.7 seconds faster. Each team skies twice on each course to make it fair. I guarantee that if you fell on the Blue course, your team would lose the entire contest because you can't make up the time on the Red coarse. That is total garbage as a basis for awarding Olympic medals. The rules need to be reviewed and revised to make this fair! What I saw yesterday was not fair or even sensible.
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