There's an amazing underwater photo of the finish on the front page of si.com. Go check it out.
When you look at it from this underwater, beneath the swimmers and in-between them, angle, you can see that Michael's right-hand touches the wall before Cavic's extended fingers.
Notice the air bubbles under Michael's armpits and around his feet while Cavic seems to be striving for a 10 in Diving (he's just trailing his legs and feet).
I can see why the Serbs might have doubted even the on-site photos.
All the shots that I have seen (NBC and CBC) where from Milorad's left (pointing from lane 3 or 2). From that angle, Cavic's hands seem to touch before Micahel's left hand, whereas the SI.com photo shows Michael's right-hand touching first.
This, now, raises another interesting question: What's the minimum time difference between the actual touch of both hands for a stroke (such as fly or ***) to be considered as "touching together"? This last question is hypothetical of course; the clock stops at the first "real" touch.
When you look at it from this underwater, beneath the swimmers and in-between them, angle, you can see that Michael's right-hand touches the wall before Cavic's extended fingers.
From that angle, Cavic's hands seem to touch before Micahel's left hand, whereas the SI.com photo shows Michael's right-hand touching first.
This, now, raises another interesting question: What's the minimum time difference between the actual touch of both hands for a stroke (such as fly or ***) to be considered as "touching together"? This last question is hypothetical of course; the clock stops at the first "real" touch.
I was wondering the same thing, Ahmed. Who knows, maybe most "simultaneous" touches are separated by a split of a split of a second? We just don't see that kind of still photo very often.
Excellent pic from SI. Save it to your PC and open in MS Office Picture Manager or something similar and blow it up to 800%. Pretty conclusive.
I was wondering the same thing, Ahmed. Who knows, maybe most "simultaneous" touches are separated by a split of a split of a second? We just don't see that kind of still photo very often.
I was wondering what the smallest amount of time the human eye can see/detect. does anyone know.
I don't know the exact answer, but I believe that ordinary broadcast TV shows about 30 frames per second and I don't think anyone can detect the frames. So the answer is probably more than 1/30 of a second. (By the way, that's another reason not to trust what you think you saw on TV -- regardless of whether your eye can detect 1/100 of a second, TV doesn't show that.)
