I saw the race 10 times. Thompson TORSO was in the same position than Lyles torso. See the corruption of VAR in football. I don't trust the drawing lines of the replay
No it wasn't. You either need to change your prescription or watch the race 11 times.
This is why the sprints are a joke. There's no meaningful difference between the competition when it's this close. Why don't they just draw straws to pick the winner and skip the whole charade of running for a few seconds?
Stupid. This is why sprints are fantastic and will always be the marquee event of T&F. As distance fan because you never had the genetics to be a sprinter, you will never understand the speed at which these sprinters are moving. They are running at almost 3 times the speed of an average human male. That all ran so fast in the final - was exhilarating. The best 100M final ever for me.
Thompson completely bottled that final. Was in low 9.7 form easy. He tried to hard and lost his form, look at his other races and he ran same time but looked easy shutting down 20m out.
Lyles is The Guvnor. The Daddy. But is Thompson had ran what he should have Lyles would have got crushed. Too far behind.
Thompson should have shut down at his usual 60M. He would have won...
I saw the race 10 times. Thompson TORSO was in the same position than Lyles torso. See the corruption of VAR in football. I don't trust the drawing lines of the replay
Nobody is believing the guy on a message board watching from his tv when several track officials and experts were there in person and can confirm
Stupid. This is why sprints are fantastic and will always be the marquee event of T&F. As distance fan because you never had the genetics to be a sprinter, you will never understand the speed at which these sprinters are moving. They are running at almost 3 times the speed of an average human male. That all ran so fast in the final - was exhilarating. The best 100M final ever for me.
43.6kph max speed, I believe I read somewhere. Slightly over 27mph.
Maybe track could use the road cycling rule of every rider in a group getting the same time. hahahaha
This is the dumbest comment in this entire thread. You need the generics for distance running at a high level too, moron… just put the fries in the bag bro 😭
Childish insults aside, bottom line is that you have to measure who won using satellites and space age technology, the winner is basically a coin flip and it's silly pretending otherwise.
Only time I ever thought someone actually got robbed was one of the Golds Phelps won where they repeatedly showed the finish and they kept saying Phelps won when clearly he had lost
as a former soccer player and current spectator, VAR isn't a good comparison. i'm old enough i date back to the strict offsides enforcement era. anybody off, was off, and immediately. i kind of prefer it because plays didn't go on pointlessly for a minute after the attack is going to be declared dead if anything happens, and where if the opposing team wins the ball, the momentum of their transition will be blunted by a belated offsides call where they have to stop playing.
i digress. point being in the current era they allow passive offsides which makes it inherently subjective. you can be off and then it's did you interfere in the play. other day a US player knocks a pass to the back post and it goes right past a US player who doesn't touch it but also doesn't act like she for sure wouldn't. player behind her scores it.
we can get into corruption but the issue with VAR most of the time is subjectivity. i was like how on earth does the ball go right past the offsides person and they didn't distract the keeper. it's not like they were out by the sideline away from the play.
i mean, up in canada in CFL, they will call pass interference on video review/challenge. that can involve a guy in an office with a different sensibility than the crew on the field. that can involve making fairly literal calls when the refs have been letting them play. you'll watch hand checking all the way downfield, both sides, and the video people call the foul on some slight push at the end.
and that all is with the subject of the video running around and moving. as the poster says, the perspective linedrawing exercise.
on this race, it's one thing, a static line, and it's fairly objective. who got to the spot first with certain body parts.
last point but you keep pouting about the photo but you're not even presenting us with something different. the official thing we use for various levels was lyles. some of the shots from the right side i saw on peacock looked lyles. lyles was going faster at the end.
The camera is lined up correctly. If you look at the overhead shot, you'll see small black dots where the finish line and lane lines intersect. These dots are for camera/timing alignment. In correct alignment you'll see black lane lines on a white "track". If it were wrong you would see an all white background or white lines on a purple track.
right, which would be the difference with the VAR linedrawing arguments. they don't have to create a new line on the fly. there is a definite finish line which at that level is probably fussed over to incredible lengths. it's more akin to the goal line or box lines. drawn on. they probably spend hours/days setting up technical equipment to the line. there are probably subtle non-line reference points just to be sure -- which i think soccer needs.
a concern of mine with this nonsense is that with the ever-tightening oly standards i think you are going to see more races like this. when you trim down the races to the best athletes, i think the races will be closer. there was already the issue today in repechage with the tie to the thousandths. i think the system is working fine -- just like the system worked fine for the US elections. i am concerned in the internet era apparently anyone can say something was stolen, without presenting their own work. it was a shocker lyles just got in there, and thompson probably had it for 99+ meters. just not the 100th. is what it is.
OP - What do you think is more reliable: your eye or the thousands of dollars worth of equipment being used to detect who crosses the finish line first?
Childish insults aside, bottom line is that you have to measure who won using satellites and space age technology, the winner is basically a coin flip and it's silly pretending otherwise.
Photo finish like that was used in the 1960s.
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Only time I ever thought someone actually got robbed was one of the Golds Phelps won where they repeatedly showed the finish and they kept saying Phelps won when clearly he had lost
Oh man, the deep state is now giving Phelps undeserved golds?
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