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Poster: coach d
Subject: RE: Something is wrong with the 60m sprints in Istanbul
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Sally Pearson, the 100-meter hurdles world champion, won her heat in 7.85 seconds, but she also thought there was a problem at the start.

"I thought someone had false started. 'Oh crap, that wasn't me, was it?'" Pearson said. "But the girl next to me was starting so I just kept going myself.

"They taught us back there, don't listen for the echo. Go for the first sound you hear," said American sprinter Justin Gatlin, who won his heat in 6.64 seconds. "There is a little bit of inexperience by coming up and saying there is a false start next to me. Your job is to run, not to be an official."


It's supposed to be that when you are "set" and you hear a sound (any sound), you go. It gets tricky with an echo as they have in Istanbul. The echo can sound like the recall pistol. If they DO call a false start and you don't stop, you won't be able to recover in time for the restarted sprint. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

It definitely sucked to be in the first couple of heats
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