If sharing means they both get 1 and he refused, then I get you; he's just an asshole. But if sharing means they both get tallied half or something that's less than just getting a gold, then I understand why he would refuse if he thought he could win.
AFAIK I have never seen a medal counted as half a medal in the Olympics. I'm glad that arrogant anti-sportsmen lost (regardless of what country he is representing, I'd feel the exact same if he was a Chinese athlete).
Have you seen one shared and the tally went up by one each? Are you confirming that he refused just to try to take a gold medal away from his opponent with no benefit to himself? If so, he's such and asshole and so deserved to lose and I'm really happy he made that mistake.
No, it's 1 gold each. It has happened before in pole vault afaik
Well, though gold may be different, in the case of bronze and silver medals, both countries are credited with a full medal. Though I may be wrong for gold. I believe we have a case in this Olympics where two swimmers both received silver, and this happens all the time with bronze.
Sharing means you both refuse to compete any further, it's terrible sportmanship.
If that's true, then they wouldn't allow it, right? You can't share the gold in hocky/soccer/basketball, etc... You need to do tiebreaker/overtime. I think sharing means I've already done my best; I can go no further and I humbly recognize my rival as my equal. And indeed, neither jumper could go further. They just went on to jump lower heights to see who fucks up first.
