I'm a former high jumper and I have mixed feelings about this… I'm happy for them and it was a really great competition. A jump-off is brutal and can be kind of

I'm a former high jumper and I have mixed feelings about this… I'm happy for them and it was a really great competition. A jump-off is brutal and can be kind of humiliating as you are exhausted physically and mentally and the bar can go down multiple times until someone passes again. But I have been in a jump-off once, and I don't recall this was an option, I don't know if the rule was changed recently or if we just didn't think of asking it at the time. I guess my unease is that if this is an option why would anyone ever choose the jump-off instead? In terms of game-theory it would never make sense. And I guess you could make an argument that they both get silver if they refuse to continue.