Story 2 begins: Neuroscience of choking under pressure

1:09:12know you all like the details and so we will always go with the details. But we are now moving back to our theme of the week, which is the Winter Olympics. We talked about why is ice slippery first. We are now moving on to our second main story which is going to be a neuroscience story. >> Yes. >> Uh and this story is about choking under pressure. Uh not literal pressure like in our first story. No. Uh this >> and not literal choking. >> And not literal choking but the figure of speech. Uh what happens in sports all the time. There's a sequence. You've done it a thousand times. You've got a down pat. You train for four years.

1:09:55And then when it comes down to the moment, you just can't lock in. >> Yeah. >> And there's actually really good neuroscience basis for these. >> Yes. And I um wanted to talk about this because of the recent events that have happened in um Cortina and Milan. This Winter Olympics, there was a man named Ilia Melanin. He was purported as the quad god. This is a Scientific American article talking about the physics of how he can pull off these impossible jumps. Um, he's a