There’s an advertisement on TV at the moment for Visa as part of the 2008 Olympics. Morgan Freeman narrates. He says…

"She needed to perform one more vault,
She needed to sprint down the runway, jump off the springboard, fly spinning through the air…and stick the landing.
And she needed to do it all on one foot. "

They are referring to Keri Strug’s vault as part of the 1996 Games.

Unfortunately the entire ad is based on a false premise. Not taking anything away from Strug’s achievement but I’m sure she herself realizes by now that based on the scores at the time, if Keri’s coaches had been able to perform the basic arithmetic in their heads they would have realized that in fact she DIDn’t need to perform that vault.

From Wikipedia: "Strug under-rotated the landing of her first attempt, causing her to fall and damage her ankle. Despite this, the attempt was awarded 9.162 points…the American coaches were unable to compute "quickly enough" whether a second vault was necessary."

"In the excitement of the moment, I think they forgot how to add. I was wondering why she went again. I thought, Gosh, that’s brave when she really doesn’t have to do it."
—Jackie Fie, international gymnastics official at the table in Atlanta

If Visa had done their research, they would have probably worded this ad differently. This is also a great example of the human response to authority figures. Great moment all the same.