Sharing the Gold
For the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics the gold medal is being shared by two participants in downhill. Those two participants were Slovenia's Tina Maze and Switzerland's Dominique Gisin. Switzerland's Gisin made and early run, clocking one minute, 41,57 seconds, before Slovenia's Maze recorded exactly the same time in the Sochi Winter Olympics. This happened on Wednesday February 12th, 2014. Huge smiles and hugs appeared after the two skiers record the same time for each of them to share the first place and winning a gold medal for the first time in history of alpine skiing.
This was an incredible day for Gisin and Maze. This was a good day esspecially for Dominique who didn't go into top 5 in downhill from 2009. For me this two skiers deserved to share this gold medal since they were the best during the race and they made no mistakes during their mistakes. In the end a miracle happened and them two shared the first place with the time of one minute, 41,57 seconds. "I have been dreaming about this day!" said Gisin after the win. While Maze said "I don't think I have ever dreamed about this day."
This was the first gold medal for Switzerland since 20 years ago when Verni Schneider won. This was the first time for them two to win olympic gold medal. Tina Maze on the last winter olympics in Vancouver has two silver medals, while Dominique Gisin has never been in top 10 on the winter olympics.
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