Coevett wrote:
https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/ATH/OG2020-_ATH_C77A_ATHM1500M-------------FNL-000100--.pdfMany people here saying that Hocker would have beaten Kerr if he had been closer at the bell. For some bizarre reason, they aren't claiming that he might have beaten Potato Tim, even though Tim only just held off Kerr.
Kerr last 400 = 54.1
Kerr last 300 = 40.6
Kerr last 200 = 27.1
Kerr last 100 = 13.6
Hocker last 400 = 54.8
Hocker last 300 = 41.1
Hocker last 200 = 27.4
Hocker last 100 = 13.9
Why does Kerr get so much disrespect here, even now? Is it because he's based in the USA, and the Americans here are annoyed that you've helped develop a rival?
Great find. Thanks for posting.
I had already done the splits for the first 3 before seeing this, and when looking again at the footage, the splits for 400, 800, 1200 all seem to be in sync. In other words, Cheruiyot's torso is in line with 800m line in 1:51.7 on screen clock (official split given is 1:51.76) and in line at 1200m when clock shows 2:47.2 (official split given as 2:47.24) . There is no 'lag' or residual error between screen clock and actual (official) timing.
Yet for some splits there seems to be a 0.2 sec difference between the screen clock and the official split.
E.g, at 1100m, Cheruiyot is in line with the finish line at 2:33.4 and Jakob at 2:33.7. But on the split sheet it gives their respective times as 2:33.6 and 2:33.9.
Similar at 1300m, which to me shows splits of 3:00.8 for Tim and 3:01.0 for Jakob. Document shows 3:01.0 for Tim and 3:01.2 for Jakob.
All I can think is that for each 100m split they simply rounded up to next 0.1sec. So, if Jakob's actual 1300m split was 3:01.11, they have published it as 3:01.2.
This would be fair enough, but it doesn't help when they round the final time down to the previous 0.1sec!
So, the document is making most splits faster than they actually are.
E.g. Jakob's time at 1300m = 3:01.11 and at 1500m it was 3:28.32. To the nearest hundredth that = 27.21, which I would refer to as 27.2.
But they have the splits as 3:01.2 and 3:28.3, resulting in a 27.1 split. I know it's only 0.1 secs, but in some instances it would work out as 0.2 secs out.
Interestingly, at the actual finish Ingebrigtsen's torso is actually on the line at 3:28.2, so there it shows a 0.1 secs delay.
Based on the screen clock I would give Jakob's closing splits to be:
54.5, 40.8, 27.2, 13.7. Which is very close to what the 'official' print out shows, despite inconsistent rounding.
For Kerr I get - 54.3, 40.7, 27.2 and 13.8.