During the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, you will sometimes see two bronze medals around the athletes’ necks, but for what reason? In combat sports, four athletes are rewarded, instead of three… We tell you everything!
THE Olympic Games have their share of curiosities, such as this habit of putting back two bronze medals instead of one, for certain sports. Five are concerned by this particularity, and these are the combat sports including boxing, judo, taekwondo, wrestling and karate (the latter being absent this year). But why are two athletes on the podium with medals?
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This amazing rule has existed since the 1952 Games, with the first sport to benefit from it being boxing. This is explained by the principle of draftwhich allows the competition to have a parallel tableBefore the quarter-finals, all matches are knockout, but from this stage onwards, the winners of the fights advance to the last four, which is official and crowns the two best.
But the losers still have a chance, thanks to another table which allows two matches for third place ! So, the losers of the official semi-final join those of the repechage, to face each other and define the two bronze medalists. In boxing, it’s even simpler, because the two losing semi-finalists automatically have a bronze medal, due to the calendar of events!
All you have to do is see this rule and directly to understand it better!
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