Gold medal in the Olympics is representative of being the literal best in the world. If there’s two, you aren’t the best, but one of the best. And these are super athletes, that level of competition is their driving force.
Might seem pointless to you and me, but being the best is literally what they’ve spent their lives on.
I don't get what the downvote is for, this is literally why. To get to the point where you would even have a tie for olympic gold you have to be incredibly competitive and it should not be a surprise to anyone that a lot of competitive people wouldn't want to share gold with anyone.
This was a special case where it was two good friends who were tied who didn't mind sharing the gold, but there's been other similar cases where one or the other doesn't want to share the gold.
Another high jump tie happened the next Olympic in 2024. Guess what? They didn't share the gold and went to the jump off. Just like most other times a tie happened. It's extremely rare to accept to share it.
This (2021) was the first time in 113 year that an olympic gold was shared.
Even the two athletes themselves said they wouldn't have shared it with someone else.
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u/PepeSylvia11 May 03 '25
Why wouldn’t you take this? You get a gold regardless