all-around/ all-round, the tie breaker

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“I still don’t know how they broke the tie,” Liukin said after the medal ceremony. “I guess one judge liked her better.

“But, like my dad said, at the end of the day, I have the most important medal,” she said of the all-around gold. “That’s the most important thing. If it happened in the all-around, I would have been much more upset.”

“As soon as I leave this arena, I’m going to forget this,” Liukin said of the tie breaker turned heartbreaker.

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all-round Show phonetics
adjective [before noun] (US all-around)
describes a person who has a good variety of skills and abilities:
She's a fantastic all-round sportswoman.

the tie breaker 比賽同分時如何分出勝負之規則

all-around

━━ a. 〔米〕 ＝all-round.

all-round

━━ a. 多方面にわたる, 万能の; 包括的な; 完全な.
all-rounder　n. 万能な人［選手］.