Any chance of a Jeopardy! redo? Spoiler for tonight's episode

[danny burstein]

The question for Final Jeopardy was "what's the [Olympic] Biathlon?"

One contestant wrote "Biathalon", adding an extra
syllable in the middle. So they clobbered him.

(He'd have still only been second place, but this
knocked his total to zero")

However, thanks to those stalwart researchers:

[twitter]

Aria Gerson
@aria_gerson
Replying to
@_thejeopardyfan
it was a while back but they've given credit for "triathalon" in the past,
it's kind of a problem if they're not consistent with it

https://j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=1706&highlight=triathalon

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[Patrick Murray]

If you want to know what a Biathlon is and how really hard it is to do, I recorded a report A million years ago before the prehistoric ages. in the early Aughts on just what one is.

https://legacy.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2002/jan/biathlon/020104.goldman.html