Phelps goes home devastated in the 100 fly!

3-way tie for 2nd. Only explanation is doping

butterfly wrote:

He got schooled by Schooling.

You better head up to bed now. It's past your bedtime.

How do they not have more accurate timing? Can't they go past one hundreth of a second?

What if four guys "tied" in the semis for final spot? Would they draw straws?

The technology has been around since the 70s in track and field.

ckfizz wrote:

How do they not have more accurate timing? Can't they go past one hundreth of a second?

What if four guys "tied" in the semis for final spot? Would they draw straws?

The technology has been around since the 70s in track and field.

Actually, such a situation has happened in track at the US Olympic trials in 2012.

They used to go out the the thousandth in swimming for the timing systems, but there is enough variability in the pool measurements, including the timing mat placement, that it was decided to only ever go to the hundredth. So the system measures to the thousandth but only records results and placings to the hundredth.

PROJECTING.

Well that's not the same situation because they both were tied at 11.068, down to the thousandth of a second, a much rarer situation.

Goes home devastated? More like stays there and gets ready for his next competition in which he will probably get gold!

That was his last race, bro.(I think).

Tincho wrote:

Goes home devastated? More like stays there and gets ready for his next competition in which he will probably get gold!

Still has a relay left

v6 wrote:

That was his last race, bro.

(I think).

Tincho wrote:

Goes home devastated? More like stays there and gets ready for his next competition in which he will probably get gold!

Bro, you couldn't be more wrong! He still has another race left, bro. Bro, don't you think that NBC would have made a much bigger deal about it if it were his last race, bro? C'mon bro. Seriously bro.

Thought it was pretty cool how humble he was. He is such an inspiration!

eh. pre-race I gave him 50/50 odds of winning. it's never been as strong for him as the 200 distance, and that was a stacked heat to have to tackle at the end of a long program.

glad he seems content with the silver, he's not always the most gracious competitor and it's disheartening.

ckfizz wrote:

How do they not have more accurate timing? Can't they go past one hundreth of a second?

What if four guys "tied" in the semis for final spot? Would they draw straws?

The technology has been around since the 70s in track and field.

In a 50 meter Olympic pool, at the current men’s world record 50m pace, a thousandth-of-a-second constitutes 2.39 millimeters of travel. FINA pool dimension regulations allow a tolerance of 3 centimeters in each lane, more than ten times that amount. Could you time swimmers to a thousandth-of-a-second? Sure, but you couldn’t guarantee the winning swimmer didn’t have a thousandth-of-a-second-shorter course to swim. (Attempting to construct a concrete pool to any tighter a tolerance is nearly impossible; the effective length of a pool can change depending on the ambient temperature, the water temperature, and even whether or not there are people in the pool itself.)

I see someone copy and pasted an article and did not cite it:

http://regressing.deadspin.com/this-is-why-there-are-so-many-ties-in-swimming-1785234795