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Italy and Qatar opt to share Olympic gold medal and fans love their emotional reaction

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Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Few sports fans will have ever seen as much sportsmanship and emotion in one incident as Mutaz Essa Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi demonstrated at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium.Qatar and Italy’s star high jumpers took part in a tense final on Sunday.And their competitive quest to be crowned Olympic champion saw them each end on 2.37 metres.Neither had any failed attempts, and both had failed to clear the 2.39 mark, which is the current Olympic record set by Charles Austin in 1996.The standard protocol at this stage would have been for the two competing for first and second to have a jump-off.That would normally determine the winner, but Qatar’s Barshim had other ideas.The 30-year-old was.

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