Harrison 12.20 WR

She's now trying to target the 400mh WR. Quite ambitious.

Kendra Harrison has broken a WR which has stood for 27y11m.

That's the longest time-span in the history of athletics (men and women) after which a WR finally was broken.

I think this deserves some more credit to Harrison.

And she will not compete at the Olympic Games...

I agree with a lot of points. It wouldn't make sense from a simple logical perspective for female athletes these days to use the 80s type of dosages of PEDs because it will literally make them look like men and stand out as obvious suspects. As someone once told me, steroids make men "super men" and women into "men". If a guy goes on a 80s PED regimen and becomes freakishly jacked, people may still be naive enough to think he just has good genetics and trains hard while the woman who clearly displays overly masculine traits will stand out far too much.

question ........

how often does the clock fail to stop like it did

during this race and why

And if so is it possible to manipulate the time by + - 0.05 to 0.10

why ask as simply dont trust iaaf anymore and their agenda against russia

or past russian influenced countries and any attempt

to get rid of any of their long standing records by various means .

the womens hurdles was the obvious target with past few close times

Yeah, I'm really surprised there's not more on this, at the "correction" conveniently was a WR by 0.01s. If the auto-clock failed as claimed, how exactly did they come up with the number? Many questions, but don't expect any investigation since it's an American.

Anyway, one can check the video to see if the 12.58 really was the 2nd place finisher (KH ducked under the clock beam supposedly), but I would like to know how the "corrections" are made (the 2nd best was also corrected by 0.01, so obviously they feel they have that sort of accuracy in a post-mortem analysis).

Not to take anything away from her tremendous performance - She completely blew the field away! Beautiful form and flow; Smoother than 'Nehemiah' in his day! But how in the hell does the clock not work?

"Lean so sharp and hard as to dip under the light beam"

What the hell!? How is that even possible? And.....if it is, then I absolutely don't trust a hell of a lot of other times and finishes out there! This doesn't make any scientific sense! How was her time then technically adjusted? How does this process work? How many other times has it got it wrong? Sounds like a really weak and inaccurate system to me!

Seems like the light beam is at head level, and she ducked. But what if someone is just short? Anyway, the clock clearly ran on after she finished (both the in-screen, and the in-field which was 0.1 ahead), and it looked like about 12.2s at the line. But when it's a WR, you don't want to be guessing!

NASCAR claims to have 0.001s timing, and really I'm not sure why IAAF doesn't either for these short events? The technology must be there by now. The 12.68 -> 12.67 adjustment/correction for 2nd was supposedly "rounding down", so they must have had a third digit after the decimal.

Doesn't IAAF/IOC have some watch company (OMEGA) as a major sponsor? Don't expect this one will be going on their resume...

She will get the credit and $$$ in the meets following the Olympics that will cement her probable #1 ranking in the world this year. Unfortunately she didn't make it through the preliminary rounds at the USA Trials which mirror the type of intense competition she would face in the Olympics. Like it or not the USA championships are the most equitable way of choosing USA track and field participants.