Here's some trivia for you. According to Wikipedia the phrase was created by Gabriel Pascal for his 1939 film Pygmalion based on the George Bernard Shaw play of that name which first appeared on stage in 1913. The movie's screenplay was later adapted for the stage as My Fair Lady in 1956 with Lerner and Loewe turning the phrase into a song. That play was turned into the Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison movie, My Fair Lady, in 1964 (which is when I first heard it.) So, for you to see it in Glee, the idea had to travel from a play to a film to a play to a film to a television show, but regardless of the route I'm glad you heard it. (Actually, the rain in Spain stays mainly in the mountains.) :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(1938_film)
Interestingly, we're reaching an era where track records are more and more difficult to break. Many records were set in the 1980s when doping regulations were less stringent. Records that are broken today are often aided by better equipment. I wonder if poles are different today than they were 30 years ago?
Not just better equipment, but better training methods, advancements in sports health and physiotherapy, and investment in sports science, with all kinds of machines to measure an athletes performance and output, special cameras to film an athletes technique over 100s of frames. All kinds of investment as sport has become more professional, more money invested as more can be gained. It wasn't long ago that the Olympics actually excluded professional athletes.
Saw this kind of infotainment documentary recently about Japan winning the 1940 Olympics(which eventually never happened, much like 2020 it seems). It showed the two Korean's (competing for Japan because they had occupied Korea) coming first and second in the men's marathon in Berlin in '36. The shoes they wore were little more than a kind of sandal with a canvas cloth covering the top of the foot.
The quiz was updated a day after Duplantis broke the world record, just so he could break it again a week later and make this quiz outdated. It´s 6.18m now :D
So my first guess was that for 20 feet, maybe it’s triple jump. Well holy good lord, the triple jump record is about 50 feet! How is that possible, my lord!
"On the plain! On the plain!"
"And where's that soggy plain?"
"In Spain! In Spain!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_symbols_of_Canada#Official_and_de_facto_symbols
"Which group" might be better.
Can anyone provide some context or explain it to me as if I were dumb?