Fun fact: women are REALLY good at extreme endurance sports! It is not uncommon for women to win in mixed competitions for events like 4000km cycling races, or 410km marathons, and they often hold world records too. At events like that it all comes down to general health, efficiency and mental toughness: all the advantages men have in traditional sports are no longer relevant.
I think I've heard women even have advantage in endurance sports. And it seems small size is advantageous too for some reason (just guessing because marathoners are often small and relatively short people). Women do have a higher pain tolerance too, but I think those sports go so far beyond suffering that all the professionals just go over some line and don't feel anything 😬
Interesting. AFAIK, the only ultra-distance* runners I know personally are all women. ( * Beyond marathon distance, with one friend who has run over 100k over a weekend for fun.)
@@igorbednarski8048Guiness World Records hasn't had anything to do with Guiness Breweries for a long time. I believe it was sold off by the owners of Guiness around 2000. It is now owned by the Jim Pattison Group, which also owns Ripley's Believe It or Not.
@@igorbednarski8048it's even less than that, the book used to be incredibly detailed, which Norris McWhirter knew off by heart. Now it's just a summary of the records kept
Sadly, the record has been broken now by a man - Christian Roberto López Rodríguez, 34, broke this world record by achieving an impressive time of 12.82 seconds.
You know, now that you mentioned it, it would be great to see sort of compilation of these clips or something. Like all questions with same guests in one video. I hope Tom is open for new ideas.
I'm not 100% certain, but I'm fairly sure that it's only the modern pentathlon where all the horses have to be the same because competitors are assigned a horse. In other events, the horse and rider are a team and have trained together.
Riding BD Robots is an interesting solution. On the one hand, it instantly solves your evenness problem. They're all identically manufactured robots, and their differences should be negligible, especially when compared to biological horses. On the other hand, it only makes the problem of affordability worse. (At least I think it does... How much would a BD horse cost?)
Sending the robots to the host country also seems easier than sending the horses there. Some countries (e.g. Australia iirc) have laws about what animals can be imported in, a robot is less likely to escape and ruin local wildlife populations.
I heard about the pentathlon that an incident at the last Olympics caused the change. Apparently you do not ride your own horse during pentathlon but some randomly alloted one - and there was quite some mistreatment going on when an athlete wasn't happy with what they considered their horse's lack of performance.
The riding of a randomly allotted horse comes from that the Modern Pentathlon was a way to get the five major disciplines a ~1900 soldier would have to be good in. "Modern" meaning not Ancient, since there was a Pentathlon in the Greek Olympics.
@@alistairwall5470More specifically, it was an officer escaping from behind enemy lines. And the unfamiliar horse was one you stole, presumably from one of the enemies you shot and/or stabbed.
I think the hardest part would actually be not loosing a shoe. But maybe they're allowed to strap them on. Kinda scary on the ancles. Running on toes is the natural way to run actually.
my thought as well, iţ is just that those high heeled shoes simply seem to me to be too stiff and slipery for running under normal circumstances. Unless there may be special running high heels...
since they got on to horses, they do nothing else. We still land on our heels, so while it's not hard to run on just your toes I expect it shortens your stride and that is slower.
Can't believe Tom said he thinks there's plenty of room for improvement on the 13.5 seconds. The normal 100m womens olympic world records in proper running shoes by people who have been training for it daily for a decade "only" do it in 10.5 seconds, so they're not slowing down anywhere near as much as youd expect by being in heels. They're still full out going sprinting speeds. She probably beats the world record normal 100m times from just a few decades ago, but in high heels!! Maybe the heels aren't as big as im imagining and they're modified so they look like trainers because 13.5 seconds in heels is insanely quick
Hi Tom, I have a nephew who has slight difficulty in hearing and relies quite a lot on subtitles to watch something. I understand that you cannot upload videos on UA-cam but can't even the podcast be provided with subtitles? That would be really great :)
Hi XR, although automatically generated captions aren't great, they're still fairly useful as an accessibility tool, so if he hasn't already tried it then I'd encourage your newphew to turn on the auto-CC option :) of course, it would be great if Tom and his team could do their own captioning, or even just turn on "community contributions" so other people can add captions.
@@JusticePreyHDM The highlights on UA-cam do, but I'm guessing that the full episodes of the podcast, which aren't uploaded to UA-cam, don't have subtitles.
my brother and I took part in a "100 metres Viennese waltz sprint" event once. It was part of a weekend of fun and games for the average public and suggestions from the public were encouraged. a dance studio put forward the suggestion... and got in As that event happened on regular tarmaced roads, it was quite a challenge to dance on it, as in ballroom dancing, the wooden floors and their physical capacities are quite important to 'hovering' and making distance.
I can't believe you all just skipped over the Louis Slotin name drop for the dollars and cents question! That's the guy who was killed by the Demon Core!
Initial thoughts: I don't have anything precise, just that the "extravagant" part of the GWR was better accomplished by that woman. The fact they specify Danish... Ran on Legos? She had both her nationality to represent/defend and experience as a mother of kids leaving Legos everywhere for her to step on.
Dona Melinte, the 1980's - 1990's female high hurdler used to train in, if not strictly high heels, but in running shoes with specialist built-up heels. So..... not quite as daft as it sounds!
Omega and other timing organisations record to the thousandths of a second but only display to the hundredth. I vaguely recall an Olympic swimming event where the winner was decided on a thousandth.
Huh, this video has surprisingly high dislike count (~400 likes to ~90 dislikes as of writing, for those that don't have the extension), which I find weird, since I haven't found anything said to be insensitive.
@@lateralcast I am just surprised because from what I've heard, the extension has been reported to be fairly accurate by other youtubers, especially on science-y channels where the audience is more likely be the type of person to dabble with browser extensions. The more people use the extension, the more accurate it is. (It extrapolates dislikes from the sample size of its users). To get a deviation this big, the sample has to be super small, like 5 users.
Fun fact: women are REALLY good at extreme endurance sports! It is not uncommon for women to win in mixed competitions for events like 4000km cycling races, or 410km marathons, and they often hold world records too. At events like that it all comes down to general health, efficiency and mental toughness: all the advantages men have in traditional sports are no longer relevant.
I think I've heard women even have advantage in endurance sports. And it seems small size is advantageous too for some reason (just guessing because marathoners are often small and relatively short people).
Women do have a higher pain tolerance too, but I think those sports go so far beyond suffering that all the professionals just go over some line and don't feel anything 😬
Interesting. AFAIK, the only ultra-distance* runners I know personally are all women. ( * Beyond marathon distance, with one friend who has run over 100k over a weekend for fun.)
I don't think "general health, efficiency and mental toughness" are what it's about. Women just have the appropriate physique for it.
Women also have a higher pain threshold, on average
All Ultra Marathon records are held by men. Running 10/20% further and faster than their female counterparts.
I dunno, I feel Tom running in high heels would make a great Tom Scott Plus video.
i was thinking exactly the same thing. maybe tom scott getting taught female etiquettes or sthg like that
Precision cake throwing!
I feel like Gary running in heels would make an incredible Tech Dif video
Well, have you seen the last video of Chris on adventure?
@@panda4247 as I recall he rather struggled to walk in heels, which leads me to think that running in heels might not be the sport for him
This question got answered so quickly I half expected to hear the "Mystery Biscuits" jingle.
Reminder that Guiness isn't a record keeping company it's a novelty book company and it's records are more about who is willing to pay.
Like dictatorships?
Guiness isn't even a novelty book company, it's a brewery that happens to sell a novelty book.
@@igorbednarski8048Guiness World Records hasn't had anything to do with Guiness Breweries for a long time. I believe it was sold off by the owners of Guiness around 2000.
It is now owned by the Jim Pattison Group, which also owns Ripley's Believe It or Not.
@@igorbednarski8048it's even less than that, the book used to be incredibly detailed, which Norris McWhirter knew off by heart. Now it's just a summary of the records kept
@@igorbednarski8048 and at this point they make more from selling world record titles than selling the books themselves
Can't wait for Tom Scott's Drag Race coming 2024!
Sadly, the record has been broken now by a man - Christian Roberto López Rodríguez, 34, broke this world record by achieving an impressive time of 12.82 seconds.
«Tom Scott's Drag Race» now that is a channel I would watch!
ME TOO, man!)
Dam, if only there was some kind of longer version of theese clips. Maybe one long one with multiple ones in it, iduno im just spitting ideas here
You know, now that you mentioned it, it would be great to see sort of compilation of these clips or something. Like all questions with same guests in one video. I hope Tom is open for new ideas.
You can find something like that by following the link in the description.
@@David_K_Booth it’s almost like there should be an easier way to access these full compilations because I don’t want to leave UA-cam to see them
@@rianrushwood1426 It's called entitlement. Try to avoid it.
@@colmwhateveryoulike3240 and they should be videos as well, keeps me engaged
I'm not 100% certain, but I'm fairly sure that it's only the modern pentathlon where all the horses have to be the same because competitors are assigned a horse. In other events, the horse and rider are a team and have trained together.
I think a Tom Scott plus episode is called for where Tom becomes a drag queen for a day.
Well Chris from Tech Diff isn't far off that
Riding BD Robots is an interesting solution. On the one hand, it instantly solves your evenness problem. They're all identically manufactured robots, and their differences should be negligible, especially when compared to biological horses. On the other hand, it only makes the problem of affordability worse. (At least I think it does... How much would a BD horse cost?)
Probably three to four times as much as spot
Sending the robots to the host country also seems easier than sending the horses there. Some countries (e.g. Australia iirc) have laws about what animals can be imported in, a robot is less likely to escape and ruin local wildlife populations.
I heard about the pentathlon that an incident at the last Olympics caused the change. Apparently you do not ride your own horse during pentathlon but some randomly alloted one - and there was quite some mistreatment going on when an athlete wasn't happy with what they considered their horse's lack of performance.
The riding of a randomly allotted horse comes from that the Modern Pentathlon was a way to get the five major disciplines a ~1900 soldier would have to be good in. "Modern" meaning not Ancient, since there was a Pentathlon in the Greek Olympics.
@@alistairwall5470More specifically, it was an officer escaping from behind enemy lines.
And the unfamiliar horse was one you stole, presumably from one of the enemies you shot and/or stabbed.
I think the hardest part would actually be not loosing a shoe. But maybe they're allowed to strap them on. Kinda scary on the ancles.
Running on toes is the natural way to run actually.
my thought as well, iţ is just that those high heeled shoes simply seem to me to be too stiff and slipery for running under normal circumstances. Unless there may be special running high heels...
since they got on to horses, they do nothing else. We still land on our heels, so while it's not hard to run on just your toes I expect it shortens your stride and that is slower.
This is the set up for the next episode of Tom Scott plus
Can't believe Tom said he thinks there's plenty of room for improvement on the 13.5 seconds. The normal 100m womens olympic world records in proper running shoes by people who have been training for it daily for a decade "only" do it in 10.5 seconds, so they're not slowing down anywhere near as much as youd expect by being in heels. They're still full out going sprinting speeds. She probably beats the world record normal 100m times from just a few decades ago, but in high heels!! Maybe the heels aren't as big as im imagining and they're modified so they look like trainers because 13.5 seconds in heels is insanely quick
I assume he means room for improvement in 100m terms. i.e. a tenth of a second is a lot and would be considered a large improvement.
It'd be interesting to compare her normal 100m to see how much it slowed her down
Full episodes on UA-cam please
Mystery Biscuits to Corey at 2:26! 😀
Funny Irony is that High Heels is stereotype with womens these days, but it was originally mens who wore it as part of their dress code.
Makes it easier to use stirrups.
So many men in heels in old paintings!
Heels != high heels. Plenty of shoes have decent sized heels but can't be considered high heels.
When are you going to post full episodes
Have the world records been broken since this video first aired? 13 seconds still seems incredibly fast though
Yes, in February 2023. Carlos Rodriguez in 12.82 seconds. Women’s record still stands though.
Hi Tom,
I have a nephew who has slight difficulty in hearing and relies quite a lot on subtitles to watch something. I understand that you cannot upload videos on UA-cam but can't even the podcast be provided with subtitles? That would be really great :)
Hi XR, although automatically generated captions aren't great, they're still fairly useful as an accessibility tool, so if he hasn't already tried it then I'd encourage your newphew to turn on the auto-CC option :) of course, it would be great if Tom and his team could do their own captioning, or even just turn on "community contributions" so other people can add captions.
It has closed captions though, you can turn it on or off
@@JusticePreyHDM The highlights on UA-cam do, but I'm guessing that the full episodes of the podcast, which aren't uploaded to UA-cam, don't have subtitles.
@@ExhaustedOwl Thank you so much for this information! :)
@@XenonRaider I think there’s manual made subtitles on all videos now!
man the podcast is always my highlight of the week, and that's whille doing dishes on friday evening :D
my brother and I took part in a "100 metres Viennese waltz sprint" event once. It was part of a weekend of fun and games for the average public and suggestions from the public were encouraged. a dance studio put forward the suggestion... and got in
As that event happened on regular tarmaced roads, it was quite a challenge to dance on it, as in ballroom dancing, the wooden floors and their physical capacities are quite important to 'hovering' and making distance.
Can confirm untrained running in heels is easier than walking on them.
Proper sprinting technique is also mostly using just the front of your foot.
Forget the pentathlon, I wanna see the biathlon in heels (partly because I'm now curious as to how high heeled skis would work)
Shoutout to the brits for reinventing RuPaul's Drag Race
Just wanted to say that when sprinting you're mostly on your toes anyway (or on the ball of your foot) so I imagine it's not super different
How about BACKWARDS in high heels, à la Ginger Rogers?
I can't believe you all just skipped over the Louis Slotin name drop for the dollars and cents question! That's the guy who was killed by the Demon Core!
I was hoping it would be running 100 meters while carrying a tray of beer steins.
Trying to decide if the breakdance joke aged well or badly after the 2024 Olympics
I knew it was heels as soon as they said stereotypes.
I got this one instantly for some reason
hahaha i got this one a few seconds before the contestants! always fun when that happens
As a Swede, my first thought was doing a 100 meter race while drunk.
13.5 seconds sounds insane
I *KNEW* it was only a matter of time until we got a Sci Guys/Tom Scott collaboration!
I'm guessing they were running in high heels.
Initial thoughts: I don't have anything precise, just that the "extravagant" part of the GWR was better accomplished by that woman. The fact they specify Danish... Ran on Legos? She had both her nationality to represent/defend and experience as a mother of kids leaving Legos everywhere for her to step on.
Missed
The video of the actual run: ua-cam.com/users/shorts2wEJkqn19LM
Dona Melinte, the 1980's - 1990's female high hurdler used to train in, if not strictly high heels, but in running shoes with specialist built-up heels. So..... not quite as daft as it sounds!
1:49 my guess is high heels
Omega and other timing organisations record to the thousandths of a second but only display to the hundredth. I vaguely recall an Olympic swimming event where the winner was decided on a thousandth.
Why not replace housing with cycling? Or are triathlon events forbidden?
My feet are hurting just thinking about this.
Jumping over things while leggin' it is not THAT weird a thing i'd say?
1 minute in; running on high heels?
Breakdancing or falling over? (Toms idea)
At 1:32, high heel race... I'm going to be wrong....
High heels?
"Drag Race... That's a good name for a TV show"
RuPaul's Drag Race: "Am I a joke to you?"
I think that's the joke
instead of horses use dirtbikes
Running in high heels is not hard.
Drag Race... amazing.
i think thats the race they are talking about ua-cam.com/users/shortsWZHffXpY_aY
Huh, this video has surprisingly high dislike count (~400 likes to ~90 dislikes as of writing, for those that don't have the extension), which I find weird, since I haven't found anything said to be insensitive.
might be people who are upset over the show not being released in video form entirely. somehow that has become a huge deal.
The extension is very wrong...
@@lateralcast I am just surprised because from what I've heard, the extension has been reported to be fairly accurate by other youtubers, especially on science-y channels where the audience is more likely be the type of person to dabble with browser extensions. The more people use the extension, the more accurate it is. (It extrapolates dislikes from the sample size of its users). To get a deviation this big, the sample has to be super small, like 5 users.
@@Adam-zt4cn The last 4 videos, including this one, have all been in the mid-90s.
@@lateralcast so, you're saying the extension is right