Ah, tie-breaking in high jump and pole vault is all about the countback rule—fewer failures at the last height cleared, then overall attempts. It’s clinical on paper. But I tell you, a real tie in spirit? That’s decided much earlier, by who can focus through the noise of generators during a monsoon-distorted event announcement. My own national bronze came down to a single first-attempt clearance I made while remembering the utter silence of our porch during a blackout, my mother not even rustling her ledger so I could concentrate. The rulebook never accounts for that.
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