I've been watching the underwater replays.
It looks simultaneous. It's impossible to distinguish with the naked eye.
And that's why electronic timing is actually measured to the 1/1000th although results are displayed and recorded in the (e-?)books only to the 1/100th. Therefore, electronically (faulty pads or not) Phelps won by a whopping 10/1000th of a second.
As much as i think of phelps as being a great swimmer. That race was so cavcis
Agreed, it looked like Phelps was swimming the 200 with how slow he took it out.
Before the days of touch pads...things like this fell into hands of the officials.
And as we were all led to believe from the visual, Phelps would have been number two.
This gold medal victory was bought to you by Omega.
That race (and the finish) will live in infamy.
I don't understand. I guess if you're a big Cavic fan you get to think something unfair happened. I'm sure there are the conspiracy theorists. As Jeff points out, there are losses by .01 via the touchpads in every meet all over the world. Is this race special for some reason? Just because you're tired of the Phelps-mania???
No infamy here, IMO.
Before the days of touch pads...things like this fell into hands of the officials.
And as we were all led to believe from the visual, Phelps would have been number two.
This gold medal victory was bought to you by Omega.
That race (and the finish) will live in infamy.
I don't understand. I guess if you're a big Cavic fan you get to think something unfair happened. I'm sure there are the conspiracy theorists. As Jeff points out, there are losses by .01 via the touchpads in every meet all over the world. Is this race special for some reason? Just because you're tired of the Phelps-mania???
No infamy here, IMO.
We need to track down and interview the third stroke and turn judge who was on the grassy knoll.... :D
No infamy here, IMO.
I agree, hundreths of a second on the touch pads happen all the time.
But it was a very unusual finish which will talked about for years to come.
If it weren't for the timing system and photo finish, there's no question that everyone (including the officials) would have said Cavic won.
And this might have been the event that changed his medal count.
BTW I was rooting for MP. :rolleyes:
But I do not suffer from Phelps-mania. My daughters might.
He's right up there with the Jonas brothers.
