Michael Johnson goes home devastated - Tobi Amusan's WR is ratified

Soviet and German times were all ratified too. I'm with MJ on this one.

“Goes home devastated”

Most trite and stupidest phrase in existence…

Ever see a cross country meet where every runner gets a PR? Do you count them?

So what are the theories about something being wrong? different issue than the Devon Allen episode which appeared to center on sensitivity of blocks.

I’m genuinely curious as to how this happened ——I’m in the camp that there’s no way that this many people ran this many PRs/NRs etc in one set of 3 races — so something happened

Timing system glitch.

"Goes home devastated" what an original catch phrase lol

She ran faster in the final.

There are high speed cameras that tons of frames per second that checked out I think right away.

So I don't doubt she covered the time in the time they said she does.

The only possible issues would be wind and/or performance enhancers but I feel confident the time was legit.

Although thinking clearly and analyzing rigorously have never been Ackbar’s strong suits (there was slavery in Africa long before the New World slave trade even started, and there remains such African slavery long after the New World trade ended), he is right to raise the issue.

It has been maybe 10 years or so since I detailed on here the Eugene 13 — that is, the magic 0.13s Eugene advantage in a top men’s 100m race. Same thing, PB’s all over the place. For whatever reason, I can’t find the thread, it may have been the 2011 race, I don’t remember.

I haven’t considered this hurdles race carefully, but the results are sufficient to arouse suspicion and a hard look. Has anybody analyzed the quality of the video evidence, or done a review of the performance histories of the individual athletes in the race?

I’m not guaranteeing that the race was totally legit, but what are we trying to argue? It’s 2022, and camera technology has come far enough that I’m sure the race was reanalyzed frame-by-frame to make sure the time was real. While the wind could’ve been off, I don’t see any crazy wind in the video. It’s not like FloJo’s 100m record where the wind was so clearly noticeable.

Just like in the 400m hurdles, the sprint hurdles records will always be easier to break (relative to the flat events) since running a “perfect” race is more improbable.

A few possibilities come immediately to mind:

1) intentionally altering the “film”, which is prob nothing more than a digital file

2) defective sensor/timing integration of the gun

3) improper correspondence of the finish camera to the gun

Eugene is not totally reliable. Same with Clermont, which may be even worse—esp when it’s Nike (Eugene) vs Adidas (Clermont).

Just my 2 cents

Meh, she ended up running 12.29 and 12.30 both into headwinds outside of Eugene after this race. Flip the wind and its not crazy far off. I was skeptical at first, but its probably legit. Really don't think someone is intentionally altering the film.

I'm a timing professional. It's not how any of this works.

If the timing were faulty the final time would be higher, not lower.

I saw a women's 100m quarterfinal race where almost everyone set a lifetime PR back in 1988.

The on screen clock started moving the moment the start signal was broadcast and stopped automatically when she got to the finish. None of this is able to be manipulated. Once the start trigger is pressed all of it is done by processes outside of human control. The final time is associated by a person, but the beam break on the photo eye is not.

It's those super bouncy distance spikes she was wearing...

Like a trampoline off the hurdles

You must be homeless, not realizing how devastating it is to go home devastated

Lol. What...SG just making stuff up while talking authoritatively?? Well, I never!

Tell that to Devin Allen.

Track and Field News said there was a guy not associated with the broadcast who was filming the 100h semi and final on a pro video camera and he counted the frames and it matched up to the same times that the official timer had for each of the runners.

So not a timing glitch.