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History in the making at Sochi
History in the making at Sochi —
Introducing Sochi's history women ... Switzerland's Dominique Gisin (left) and Slovenia's Tina Maze.
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History in the making at Sochi —
Gisin had appeared set to claim outright gold in the women's downhill after finishing with a time of 1 minue 41.57 seconds, which would have been a shock result given her lack of recent race victories.
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History in the making at Sochi —
But 30 minutes later Maze -- who won the overall World Cup title last year -- clocked the exact same time to take a share of the gold.
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History in the making at Sochi —
The scoreboard shows Maze and Gisin finishing with the same time.
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History in the making at Sochi —
It was the first time in the history of alpine skiing at the Olympics that there were two gold medalists in the same event.
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History in the making at Sochi —
There have been instances of shared medals in alpine skiing at the Olympics, but they were for silver in 1964, 1992 and 1998.