When high jumpers Mutaz Barshim and Gianmarco Tamberi failed to clear the final height in the Tokyo 2020 final, it looked like they were going to have a “jump off” for the gold medal. However, when the referee came over, Barshim asked, “can we have 2 golds?” It was a moment seen across the world, and in an interview with Bloomberg Quicktake, Barshim told the story of what happened on that historic night when 2 athletes shared the high jump gold medal for the first time.

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