I think there was some sort of miracle that slowed Cavic down there, he should've had that victory, especially with Phelps blowing his finish that badly... I guess he is just fated to be the greatest olympian of all time...
ya it's kind of disappointing that they're taking that step. i don't really see how you can say that the touchpad is biased against you. but it was so close i personally would probably like to see it frame by frame underwater. maybe they need to file the paperwork now just in case they find anything on the video. oh well.
Mighty close. I thought the Serb won it. Just saw the replay I stll don't know. It looked like the Serb was on the wall first.
The Serbs say the pads were faulty.
Saw the underwater replay on my satellite feed. It did look like Phelps may have got him because Cavic's hands to the wall looked glacial compared to Michael's slamming the wall.
I could swear at last year's Worlds that Crocker touched first. Maybe it's a conspiracy. :thhbbb:
Cavic's finish was "amateurish". He glided in (OK. His hands were too close for attempting an extra .5 or .3 or whatever-th of a stroke, but his legs were straight. I didn't notice even an attempt at a kick or .5 an amplitude kick.
pretty low class of bottom to file protest. i would have looked at the video to confirm but that should be enough. it's clear from the video phelps' finger flex upward first (from the super-slow-mo underwater shot). people who think cavic won...come on. there are two explanations:
1) cavic's touchpad is faulty. if it didn't work, it would most likely not even register a touch. it's clear from the video that the difference between phelps and cavic is less than 5 hundredths. so is he going to argue that the pad is off by 1-2 hundredths? the pads are calibrated to a much greater precision than this.
2) the only other explanation is that the results were "rigged". after careful thought it should be clear that "rigging" the results under the constraints of a) getting the "rigged" results to match close enough to viewers' perceptions and b) within the 1 second it takes to get the results from the pads to the scoreboard would require some serious crystal-ball vision. come on now. i thought the us womens' gymnastics teams protests were lame, but this really takes the cake. if you're going to come up with a conspiracy theory at least make one about something that's so cut and dry that its easily disproved
I've been watching the underwater replays.
It looks simultaneous. It's impossible to distinguish with the naked eye.
It's moot anyhow now, the tape back ups prove the pads got it as it happened. I guess as was mentioned there has to be certain amount of pressure so that's what's needed to win--you have to do more than brush them. Real tight though, can you imagine making that call without the technology?
