He broke a record, but got bronze. Why?

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Matt Parker, Bill Sunderland and Dani Siller face a question about a record-breaking athlete that only received a bronze medal.
FULL EPISODES: Listen via www.lateralcast.com/ or wherever you get your podcasts.
This is a clip from LATERAL, a weekly podcast about interesting questions and even more interesting answers, hosted by Tom Scott. For business enquiries, contestant appearances or question submissions, visit www.lateralcast.com
GUESTS:
Matt Parker: ‪@standupmaths‬, / standupmaths
Bill Sunderland: ‪@consumethismedia‬, / escthispodcast
Dani Siller: ‪@consumethismedia‬, / escthispodcast
HOST: Tom Scott.
QUESTION PRODUCER: David Bodycombe.
RECORDED AT & EDITED BY: The Podcast Studios, Dublin.
EDITOR: Julie Hassett.
GRAPHICS SYSTEM & DESIGN: Chris Hanel at Support Class.
GRAPHICS ASSISTANCE: Dillon Pentz.
MUSIC: Karl-Ola Kjellholm ('Private Detective'/'Agrumes', courtesy of epidemicsound.com).
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS: Josh Halbur, Ben Justice, Lewis Tough, Arun Uttamchandani, Eglė Vaškevičiūtė.
FORMAT: Pad 26 Limited/Labyrinth Games Ltd.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: David Bodycombe and Tom Scott.
© Pad 26 Limited (www.pad26.com) / Labyrinth Games Ltd. 2022.

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@lateralcast Год назад

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@jackeea_ Год назад

These videos are clearly aimed at the demographic who don't have the time to watch a 42 minute video, but do have the time to watch 7 videos that are 6 minutes long each

@Epinardscaramel Год назад

😁

@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis Год назад

Heyyyy that’s me

@SethsTable Месяц назад

Guilty

@oldmanofsacramento Год назад

One could also, conceivably, break/make a world record in the 'heats' or 'qualifying' rounds which would stand as a record even if you fail miserably in the 'finals' or the 'medal' rounds of that event.

@Julio974 Год назад

I originally thought it was about breaking a world record in an earlier round, but losing in the finals

@xpehkto Год назад

I like the CollegeHumor's approach: most of their shows have separate channels for shorts and for full episodes.

@andrewmunro8830 Год назад

And I really appreciate that!

@NoNameAtAll2 3 месяца назад

except youtube removed "channels" tab, so good luck finding other channels now :/

@Anzy.99 2 месяца назад

@@NoNameAtAll2yep, that really sucks. but I'm glad I subbed to them all before they did that. RU-vid is getting worst instead of improving.

@Stuartdouglas19 Год назад

my guess was based on the fact that in the olympic long jump, they have the preliminary round and then top 12 come back for the final - with the jumps reset. so I guessed that he'd broken the record in the prelimary round, but then only got 3rd in the acutal final.

@fltchr4449 Год назад

In 2000 Carey Hart spent his second scoring run in the finals of the motocross Gravity Games on a single backflip, the first ever. He didn't score well enough for a medal but everyone went wild and it set a new tone for the sport.

@Anzy.99 2 месяца назад

wow, Mr Pink did an awesome thing

@MF-fd2ug Год назад

Rhombic Decathlon is a brilliant gag

@zsoltturi6989 Год назад

Repost! How can i set the notifications just to get updated with the new episodes, but not the highlights?

@NihlusKryik Год назад

The ability to only get notifications for certain uploads is a technology that RU-vid has yet to figure out

@zsoltturi6989 Год назад

@@NihlusKryik So the 21st century is here, i see. :D

@SasquachPL Год назад

Tom is the world champion of interesting trivia. Lord of things you might not've known.

@killerexe007 Год назад

My guess was that the record was not for the jump, but for the number of Bronze medals

@seailz Год назад

It would be cool if the title was “(title) [HIGHLIGHT]”

@listey Год назад

It's right there in the thumbnail. I'm not sure why people are struggling so much with this.

@AllanSavolainen Год назад

I would recommend putting the full episodes on a separate playlist, tad annoying to get notifications on these shorts

@1maaaks Год назад

I think, some of us (not sure about myself, but maybe someone) would be less angry about the whole highlights thing if the thumbnails were more distinct from the full videos. For example, they could use purple without orange or something like that. Then subscribers could try to get used to the fact that purple thumbnails are something that they unfortunately see in their feeds but never watch, while purple+orange is something worth clicking.

@1maaaks Год назад

I mean, the difference should be in the whole thumbnail, not just the small caption under the caption.

@DannyHodge95 Год назад

Aww, I thought that 2 people then matched his world record, and they all drew in third. Was so sure I was right 😭

@PKSullivan 10 месяцев назад

Wait, you didn't even mention that LeGendre (the football/baseball star from Georgetown who broke the world long jump record during the pentathlon where he took home bronze after failing to qualify for the long jump event and later failed to become a Hollywood icon and so fell back into dentistry as a profession) died at the AGE OF 33.

@harshilpatel684 Год назад

Achieving the long jump record as part of the Triple jump was my answer

@brandonm8901 Год назад

Did anyone else get it from the title alone?

@thephysicistcuber175 10 месяцев назад

Other possibilities: 1) He broke the WR, but not in the final round. 2) He broke the WR single in the final round, but you'd be ranked based on mean of x or average of x.

@bioLarzen Месяц назад

My first thought was that he actually got a "gold medal" and "bronze" here meant the actual material of the medal - we know "gold" and "silver" medals aren't actually made of gold/silver, but usually of a less precious metal (often bronze) and are only gold/silver plated - but it was killed when Tom confirmed that "he came third".

@fireproofman Год назад

'There's a lot of stories to that mans life' sounds like a great wikipedia articles that might need citations

@oliknight2223 2 месяца назад

My first thought was that he was participating in the high jump, and he'd lost some height in favor of length so he ended up losing the gold.

@somniad Год назад

hehe, this is the first one where I've seen the thumbnail and thought I had the answer! I thought the record was for getting the most lifetime bronze medals

@TestarossaF110 Год назад

What a guy, wow. Soo many stories indeed.

@MartinAhlman Год назад

For once I new the answer to a sports question right, no need to think even! This is a very special day for me, I shall remember it for ever. No, not really, not forever. But I knew the answer as soon as I heard it. Some things just stick in my mind, usually useless ones. Thank you for this question, Tom!

@Zwiebelgian Год назад

Please mark clips as such

@TerribleUsernameAmirite Год назад

Polite and succinct.

@jorin8297 Год назад

I think its a good thing the thumbnail already says highlight. Putting it into the title too as a mention would be nice though.

@Zwiebelgian Год назад

@@jorin8297 I didn‘t even notice that

@seanmcnew18 6 месяцев назад

My guess was that he jumped from before the line, so the overall jump was a record setter, but from the line to landing, only got him 3rd place.

@markboots_ Год назад

My thought was that he only had the world record for a brief moment because the number 1 and 2 still had to go

@erictaylor5462 6 месяцев назад

There is a scene in Superman where Clark Kent is in high school and he gets disrespected by the football team. In frustration he kicks the ball through the uprights and the ball just keeps goin and going for miles. I remembers thinking, Yea, coaches always say, give it your best effort, but we are talking about Superman here. His best effort would be way past what was needed to win, but Clark wouldn't need to use his best effort. He just needs to do well enough to beat the other guys. He'd be an extraordinary athlete, but not necessarily superhuman. You don't need to kick 100 yard field goals. 35 or 40 yards would be enough. And if he's playing offense he wouldn't need to kick field goals at all. Just give him the ball on third down and he could get to the first down line every time. On defense no one could ever get by him or out run him. He needn't show that he could always do much much better.

@k1llwizzy Год назад

the other show is QI, most episodes are available online, if Tom can like this message to confirm it would be epic.

@SVoided Год назад

I thought the answer was gonna be he created the Parker Jump 🤣

@dyent Год назад

The technicality was my initial guess, because I randomly know that the wind has to be below a certain speed (10mph gusts, I think) for it to be a valid record

@joeldeakin2003 3 месяца назад

My original guess was that he wasn't last to compete so he jumped, set the record, and then 2 other guys who took part after him also somehow manage to break the record at the same event, leading to him getting 3rd place lol

@billdanbury Год назад

Tom @4:30 might say he is experiencing Technical Difficulties… ?

@billmoore_n5z Год назад

As I recall under track & field rules a long jump contestant must land for the attempt to qualify. You have to make a dent in the sand for measurement.

@Stirdix Год назад

I got it, but also had the thought that it might have been a part of a team event of some sort and his team didn't match up.

@webchimp Год назад

Just for Dani, in the first modern Olympics there were no golds, all the winners got a silver medal.

@evernewb2073 Год назад

iirc the third jump in the triple jump often beats the long jump record because there is more stored energy in the motion but that could _easily_ be misinformation I've absorbed...also that would not count for the long-jump world record unless the wording of this question is way off.

@ishashka 9 месяцев назад

My guess was similar, but that it was an event that didn't even involve long jump, he just jumped really far when doing something else

@Daniel-ib5nt Год назад

Ok, sorry, love the show but i dont need every episode 3 times in my abo box, or even 6 times if all questions get released as their own clips.

@talos935 Год назад

I was thinking it was smashed qualifier/heats and they did meh in the finals

@JoseAlcerreca Год назад

My guess was that the first and second also broke the world records, but they simply jumped after him.

@brandonm8901 Год назад

"which no one surpassed at the event" was in the question though....

@gamesetmatt23 Год назад

Got this within about 5 seconds. Pretty simple, really.

@cybergeek11235 Год назад

Aw, nuts. I was gonna guess that it was a three-way tie.

@qtheplatypus Год назад

What does it say on tom’s mike?

@andrewmunro8830 Год назад

Think it says "The Podcast Studios"

@AdriaanZwemer 8 месяцев назад

I love a five-event pentathlon - unlike those pesky four-event pentathlons?

@TheFartfish Год назад

And here we have some delicious food for the algorithm ;-)

@SharienGaming Год назад

i guessed that he was actually sprinting and longjumped the last bit in a desperate attempt to beat the others... but only came third, but accidentally did a record longjump XD also i now really want to know how someone who is a world record longjumper does not qualify for the longjumping event O_o like...was he just not feeling like it?

@jello3456543 Год назад

Quite a few years ago now (I forget which year) there was a TON of pre-Olympics advertising in the US hyping these two American sprinters (I've also forgotten their names, I suck at anecdotes, but anyway), they're going to win it all, the rest of the world is competing for bronze, etc. Then... one of them failed to qualify. Qualifying is quite often a single specific event, and if you just happen to be having an off day that day, you get to watch the Olympics from the comfort of your own home.

@Junebilation7900 Год назад

My first guess was that the man was just reaally tall & that made the difference for the world record, but wouldn't have counted in the event

@ipha Год назад

oh yay. the same video. a third time.

@alexortiz9777 Год назад

I got it!

@brianvernaglia9449 Год назад

Agree with everyone else. I watched the whole episode. I don't need to watch little pieces of the episode over and over again.

@tom_eldridge Год назад

I dont mind as long as it is marked as such

@listey Год назад

So don't watch it then? Surely it's not more complex than that...

@lucy-h Год назад

@@listey just mainly got confused thinking it was a new episode haha

@Wouter10123 Год назад

Yup, I've been down voting, reporting and hiding them. I don't want this to clutter up my sub box.

@brianvernaglia9449 Год назад

@@tom_eldridge I won't.

@TestarossaF110 Год назад

My guess was something discriminatory to whatever happened. They should've gave him an honorary something or another 😅.

@yhubtfufvcfyfc Год назад

Please don't do this for all of them. It's just redundant.

@ragnkja Год назад

“The five-event pentathlon”; as opposed to what? A pentathlon has five events by definition.

@bl4cksp1d3r Год назад

I think it was more of a explanation of the word.

@shashwatsharma2596 Год назад

An event where the contestant has to change 5 pairs of pants, while running of course.

@MrNoName7474 6 дней назад

Easy, the medals went out in order of who was doping the least since they all failed their drug test.

@DeepseaGaming1000 Год назад

Why are people surprised that a 6 minute video isn't an entire podcast? The thumbnail says highlight, and if you watched the full podcast, you probably know this topic was covered. This video is clearly here for people who didn't watch the full thing

@johnwisdomtv Год назад

Why do you assume people read thumbnails?

@BeefinOut Год назад

The issue isn't that people think it's a random 6-minute mini-podcast, the issue is that people don't want notifications for things they've already seen. Knowing that it's a highlight doesn't prevent it from being an annoyance in your subscription feed.

@1maaaks Год назад

Also, why do you assume anyone is happy seeing more noise in their feed? I have enough noise there. Tom Scott's noise is more forgivable than most of other noise, but still, I sould like for all channels, including Tom Scott's channels, to produce less noise.

@DeepseaGaming1000 Год назад

If you're complaining about getting too many notifications from Tom Scott because he posted two videos a couple of days apart, you really must have an interesting and eventful life

@1maaaks Год назад

I have a really eventful Subscriptions feed, that's for sure. Tom Scott is not the only youtuber I am subscribed to, and he is not the only one who publishes short versions of what I've already watched. This accumulates into a mess.