desperation but was now only missed out of it is now we edged out in the photo finish by norway's emil haye place france in a match in the despair before cart and who can forget one of the more humorous climaxes and finishes to any race in winter olympics history it came in the men's ski cross now of the four compact it says three of them fell at the final jump they all slid over the line at exactly the same time in different positions and shapes along the ground no one of them knew exactly what was going on so as we celebrate the sporting successes here in sochi let's just take a second and spare a thought for those who haven't narrowly missed out by a fraction of a second all those years of training and hard work and it comes down to the blink of an eye but of course not all the competitors here in sochi were expecting to compete for gold and not all competitors here in sochi needed a photo finish to determine their final position in the standings. i think. for some athletes such a twenty fourteen was simply about taking part take for example indian illusia shiva can shave in his commitme