Hello and welcome to SciShow Tangents. It's the Lightly Competitive Knowledge Showcase.

I'm your host Hank Green and joining me this week as always, Science Expert, Siri Riley.

Hello. Yeah, you can't say as always because now I've had one absence.

And our resident, every man who is always here, never absent so far at least, Sam Schultz.

I missed one episode a long time ago, two years ago. Well, I forgot about it. So you just need to

let me live in ignorance. Okay. As this episode is going live, I think that we're just wrapping up

the Olympic Games or have already wrapped up the Olympic Games. And I wanted to, you know,

what y'all's favorite Olympics thing is. Oh, I have an answer. We watched this video in both English

and Italian. So the high jump, I don't know much about Olympic sports, but we've been turning it

on on every TV when we pull into a hotel room. And basically two men, one Italian and one

from Qatar jumped very high. Yes. This shows how much I care about the sport part, but they both

jumped very high. And it was very emotional for both of them. Mm-hmm. They were like old buds.

They were like friends for a long time. They've both been struggling with injuries.

Mm-hmm. So during the Olympic event, they both jumped a certain height. And then when they had to

do the next height to try to win gold, they both failed three times. And so it would have come down

to a jump off where they would both, I don't even know what that would entail. They would both like

try to jump higher or just like do it another success. Do the original height that they had already

done and see who failed at it first just keep going until your body falls to pieces?

I don't know. I don't know what they would have done. Yeah. A jump off situation. And instead,

the guy from Qatar asks the ref that came over. Is it possible to just give two golds? And within

like five seconds, they both looked at each other and like hugged and were like two golds,

and they were so happy and like crying and hugging each other and they both won two golds.

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