Watch: When two men decided to share the high jump gold medal at Tokyo 2020 - a moment for the ages
Mutaz Essa Barshim of Qatar and Gianmarco Tamberi of Italy decided against a playing a jumpoff and shared the gold medal for men’s high jump.

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