I can't believe how close this was! In my opinion, it looked like Aivars had it, but I respect the judges call, they know better than me!

An event tie was spot on.

Insane, they were timed perfectly synced left hand to right removal.

As far as i can see with the footage from youtube. Their hands come off the stone in the same frame. Crazy finish!

Unfortunate for Aivers 😅 got his stone in place first but took the time to try and stabilize it and ended with a tie. Honestly this is pretty freaking cool though!!

Such sportsmanship from both of them. Love to see that.

Rock paper scissors to decide.

Literally the same time. Split the points.

i saw it on 0.25 speed and kept pausing every frame and it was the same time. Aivars gets it up first but is slow to get hands of so Luke catches up

It's the exact same frame. Which is the only thing the judges can go off of. A tie is objectively correct.

Both looked like karate kid doing the crane 😂

Do it again!

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At first I was like Aivars has it but the frame by frame clearly shows they left go at the exact same time. Good call by the refs.

Calling it a draw was the only possible outcome. I mean if they gave it to Luke, Aivars would be disrespected and the same way for Luke if the win would be given to Aivars. I watched it like 1000 times... I think that Luke won it by a fraction but if you give me 10 more attempts I might change my answer and then again... Well done to both of the athletes and the judges as well.👏👏👏

Aivars seems like a really nice guy

Give them 5 rounds boxing 🥊 fight.

Should be who gets it on the hole first

1:05 it looks like the same frame to me. One frame they are both on, the next they are both off.

one in a million moment…

Looks like there gonna have to add in ultra slowmotion with how close some of these events are

Maybe with a higher frame rate camera, a difference could have been seen- but it looked like they were both hands off on the same exact frame with the footage we have. That's a tie.

Amazing Atlas stone awosome strong 💪💯😉👍👍🤙✌️the best Luke 🏅🏅🏅💯🔥🔥🔥😎💪💪💪💪

they should run a slow mo camera

Descending Atlas Stones has become quite a competitive event. Bravo to the Competitors!

It looks like Luke's hands were off of it for 1 frame before Aivars but it's hard to say definitely without another camera angle.

Rock paper scissors for the decider.

The difference between being ESM or not. Tough one to call on the naked eye after some seconds of consideration There has to be a better way found. But god knows what that is. Is it more cameras and higher frame rate? Like an overhead camera? That would at least give a better angle to view the finish. On the other hand, you could do all that and never have a finish this close again. But it is sport and it will inevitably happen again, in this event or others.

Aivars clearly won look 2:05

Tell you what else has never happened before, Aivars going in to a comp well rested. He'd probably do the stones in about 3 seconds.

Synchronised stone lift

you just gotta call that a tie

Have to feel for the bloke doing the taping, real hard job but suppose someone has to do it.

identical.

Whos great idea was it to put the end of a video at the beginning?

Aivars got it

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So make them heavier next time haha?

Skipping the stupid spoiler intro again, cus no doubt that showed it before seeing the rest.

Luke by a fraction of a fraction

That was so clearly a Luke win by 0.0000000000000000000000001 of a second

They should have just had them do a tie breaking run because the camera angles weren’t clear and it’s not fair to give it to Luke because giants live always roots for their own.

Watched here on youtube it's literally the same frame.. Amazing/Embarrassing they dont buy better cameras with higher speed for these things.. Or rent one for 1 day... Embarrassing say the least...

Aivars was robbed