Runners wore two bib number each...one large and one small....please explain?
also where can you find the names of the runners according to their bib numbers?
thanks
Runners wore two bib number each...one large and one small....please explain?
also where can you find the names of the runners according to their bib numbers?
thanks
The larger one is a bib number and the smaller one is actually a hip #. The meet officials use the smaller one to communicate with the person running the Finish Lynx so that the correct person will be associated with the correct time in the computer. The bib number is more for the meet program and the spectators
Bib numbers are from the age of the dinosaurs... you'd think with modern-day technologies (chip-timing, etc.) we could get rid of those unruly and unsightly, bulky, things.
thanks
I wish they would but the NAME of the athletes on the bid!...thanks again for the info!
chip-timing for all major races (like last nights) would be awesome. (not for results, of course--since all WR are measured by acu-track) you could actually do real-time updates. you could have current placing, as well as splits for each of the runners. fans would know who was in what place and be able to actually identify people, instead of saying, "hey, who's that?" and since i'm dreaming, why not have headshots of all the runners to go along with their current position, so we can indentify them even easier.
of course all this depends on the venue having a sweet jumbo-tron like they have at stanford. it would also require venues to equip their tracks with the chip readers beneath the surface of the track. so right now it's pretty much a pipe dream, unless someone is putting in a new facility.