Jonnie the Olympian goes all-in
Jonnie is ambitious and tells Alex to extend the pole to its full length of 700cm.
It doesn't go particularly well, as his super-long pole gets wedged at both ends, between the front door and the doorway to the study. Jonnie’s approach seems to be to attempt to turn these strikes into one long continuous contact, as he bends the pole through the house, sliding it along the ground. However, the one-touch approach doesn’t work out in reality, and multiple further contacts are registered as he negotiates the interior with his impractically large pole.
He attempts to move backwards through the telephone box with the pole, but it proves very difficult to manoeuvre, hitting trees and the ground multiple times throughout the process.
His pole touched the ground multiple times more as he attempts to pass it underneath Linda the cow.
While negotiating the tyre obstacle, he decides just to lay the pole through the tyres and then walk around to pull it through from the far end, to potential incur less penalties. However, he then knocks over one of the tyres during the extraction process, registering multiple strikes in the process.
At the mailbox, he accepts that the pole is going to touch it, and just slides it through in one continuous strike. However, the pole is so long that it actually strikes the wall of the house multiple times during the process and, in the act of angling the pole more upwards, he also tips over the mailbox.
He makes it to the cartwheel with just five seconds to spare, and wrestles the unwieldy pole into an upright position with just one second left on the clock.
Back in the studio, everyone is impressed with Jonnie’s ambition and determination. Alex reveals that, despite the almost constant buzzer sounds during the video of his attempt, he only actually touched objects with his pole 48 times, reducing his pole length to 220cm, and placing him second overall in the task.
(Written by Hanny Time and proofread by Karl Craven)
(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: Karl Craven)
