. >> reporter: reigning world champ american katie moon matching australian nina kennedy vault after vault. >> they really are friends, but they also desperately want to beat each other. >> reporter: for more than two hours, the bar raised as the two vie for gold >> another national record third time clear, and she's over nina kennedy, tears in her eyes >> reporter: emotions high >> katie moon doesn't succeed here, the gold medal goes to australia. katie moon goes clear. the competition goes on >> reporter: it looked like things were going to a jumpoff, but instead, the two jumped at the chance to share the gold. >> we had jumped the same pretty much the entire competition. it was my gut reaction to say, yes, like, we both won, and i'm good with that >> reporter: for many, it brought back memories of the tokyo olympics, when high jump pers from italy and qatar opted to both take gold >> she's honestly, like, one of the greatest in the sport, so, to share it with her is, like, an honor and a privilege, and we're going to be connected forever, so, that's pretty special. >> reporter: tw

nina kennedy with tears in her eyes. >> reporter: emotions high. >> katie doesn't succeed here, the goldion goes on. >> reporter: it looked like things were going to a jump off. but instead, the two jumped at the chance to share the gold. >> we jumped the same pretty much the entire competition. it was my gut reaction to say, yes, we won and i'm good with that. >> reporter: it brought back memories of the tokyo olympics when high jumers from italy and qatar both opted to take gold. >> to share it with her is like an honor and a privilege. and we'll be connected forever. that is pretty special. >> reporter: two champions that prove they also have hearts much gold. kristen dalgren, nbc news. >>> and that's "nightly news." thank you for watching, everyone. i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. good night. >>> we are coming on

there was a touching moment in the women's pole vault, with katie moon and nina kennedy deciding to shareold medal. american moon and australia's kennedy both cleared 4.90m but missed all three attempts at 4.95m after a draining two hour and ten minute contest. they could have gone to a jump—off, but ultimately decided two winners were better than one. there's european football action on wednesday, three first leg champions league qualifying ties to tell you about. there was a five—goal thriller as norwegian side molde slugged it out with the turkish champions galatasaray. mauro icardi with the injury time winner that gives them a slender lead going into the return leg in turkey. meanwhile, braga of portugal edged past greek side pa natha naikos, 2—i. and israel's maccabi haifa played out a goalless draw with switzerland's bsc young boys. the second leg of those matches on tuesday. english premier league side aston villa have taken a huge lead in their bid to qualify for the europa conference league group stages, they thrashed scottish premier league side hibernian 5—0 in the first leg. o

katie moon from the usa and australia's nina kennedy decided to split gold in the pole vault afterfinishing in a tie at the world championships. they could have gone to a jump—off but kennedy and moon agreed to share the title after both cleared 4 metres 90. neither could make 4.95m after three attempts. two years ago at the tokyo 0lympics, mutaz essa barshim and gianmarco tamberi paved the way to splitting a title when they finished deadlocked in the highjump. so that shared gold medal adds to the usa's total at the top of the leaderboard — 14 in total with seven golds. spain and great britain both have four medals in total but all of spain's were gold so they're in second. ethiopia have more total medals but fewer golds, which leaves them in fourth ahead of day six getting underway. simone biles spent two years away from gymnastics after she struggled with her mental health in tokyo during the olympics. now she's back competing at this weekend's us championship in california. it comes just a week after her first competition at the hydration classic where she claimed gold in the all—round

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the american pole vaulter katie moon defended her decision to share the gold medal with nina kennedyaustralia at the world athletics championships, telling critics on social media that to continue competing would have been dangerous. in a lengthy post, she hit back saying: we've had the weigh7in for the world heavyweight bout in poland this weekend between the champion olexander usyk, and the british challenger daniel dubois. dubois topped the scales at 16 stone nine pounds — his lightest in six years. but that's still a stone heavier than the ukrainian. usyk is undefeated in 20 professionalfights, and is favourite to retain his three world title belts. and that's all the sport for now. we'll be back with more later on, we'll see you then. we are going to stay with sport. five days ago, spain's women's football team were the toast of the world, after beating england to win the world cup. but the celebrations since then have been somewhat overshadowed by the behaviour of luis rubiales, the head of spain's football federation. this image of him kissing the captain jenni hermoso on the

the american pole vaulter katie moon defended her decision to share the gold medal with nina kennedy world athletics championships, telling critics on social media that to continue competing would have been dangerous. in a lengthy post, she hit back, saying... she goes on to say... we've had the weigh—in for the world heavyweight bout in poland this weekend between the champion olexander usyk and the british challenger daniel dubois. dubois topped the scales at 16 stone, nine pounds — his lightest in six years. but that's still a stone heavier than the ukrainian. usyk is undefeated in 20 professional fights and is favourite to beat the 25—year—old dubois, but he is putting all three of his world titles on the line. that is all the sport from us for now. we will be back later on, we will see you then. thank you, gavin. we will have more from sport. more now from spain, where the government has begun legal proceedings to suspend the head of the country's football federation. luis rubiales has been resisting calls to resign, despite a deluge of criticism over giving jennifer hermoso — a

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katie moon and nina kennedy decided to share the title after both cleared four metres 90.ht. britain's dina asher—smith who won gold in this event four years ago came through from lane eight in her heat to qualify. team—mates daryll neita and bianca williams are also through. and the men's semi—finals are also this evening. having already won bronze in the 100, zharnel hughes eased through his heat in a fraction under 20 seconds. the fastest time of all the qualfiers so far. southern brave beat manchester 0riginals by six wickets to secure a top—three finish and set up a meeting between the two sides in the competition's eliminator. devon conway hit an unbeaten 5a from a0 balls as brave successfully chased down their target with five balls to spare. the teams will play again at the 0val on saturday for a place in the final. in the women's match between the two southern brave secured a place in a third successive final. maia bouchierfinished unbeaten on 47 for an eight wicket victory at old trafford. the final will be against northern superchargers or welsh fire who will pl

now i know this sounds bizarre, but it's nina kennedy of australia who set a national record and usa'sthen they were both failing. so it was like a matter of and they decided between the two of them so they could decide , now what do you could decide, now what do you want to do? can either share want to do? we can either share the gold medal or we can continue there. we are all we can continue to compete. now surely you would just go , surely you would just go, wouldn't you? you just go. let's agree . let's agree and take the agree. let's agree and take the gold because there'll be gold each because there'll be some think, you know, want some we think, you know, i want to on my own. it's to win this on my own. but it's interesting decided, interesting that they decided, okay, quit and we'll okay, let's both quit and we'll both gold together. both win gold together. >> i just say the name >> can i just say the name today's society? >> whereas i just no, >> whereas i just said, no, we'll so if you we'll do it again. so if you were your 200 bend running were doing your 200 bend running an

caroline kennedy was there with her uncle. nina totenberg, who covers? the court for npr. of course, all the press were there, and there were people marching around outside for bush, for gore. al sharpton was there marching around. so ted looks out and he says to us in his oral history, i said to myself, close your eyes, stop and think about this for 30 seconds, because someday people are going to want to hear these. and sure enough, we got hear them. so let me give a pop quiz. those of you who are here today or if you're watching online or you're watching archive. so in 2005, right before the 4th of july weekend, sandra day o'connor, such a historic woman on the court, the first woman appointed by reagan in 81 she announces in the middle of that summer surprisingly that she is going to retire the court. and the reason though is it was a prize was that chief justice rehnquist had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer and it was thought that if someone was going to the court that summer, it would be he. but she went in to see and he said, no, i don't intend to leave. and she s