I searched and couldn't find this posted, but I could have missed it.
Anyways, its pretty interesting because the official basically says Cavic touched first, but didn't "push" and slid, while Phelps pushed with force, etc etc. (He talks about this right at halfway through the video)
www.swimchampions.com/.../
Personally I think you have to live with however the time system works as long as it is functional. If it was functional and Cavic didn't press hard enough, its tough luck.
The only alternative is to just present a "tie" when you are within the margin of error of the equipment.
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I believe that there exists a rule (it's too late in the p.m. for me to go look it up so I'm paraphrasing from—poor—memory) that says that electronic timing equipment can measure down to the 1/1000th of a second but that only
times to 1/100th of a second will be recognized. Somebody else may have seen or read this somewhere; I can't have dreamed it (because I thought to myself "At World and Olympic level meets 'Why not?'")
Omega has a nice 'history of timekeeping' section on their web site:
www.omegawatches.com/index.php
Spectators in Munich witnessed the controversy of the first and only gold medal in the pool ever to be awarded on the basis of thousandths of a second which forced a change in rules. In the 400-metre medley, Gunnar Larsson, the double European champion from Sweden, and Tim McKee (USA) stopped the clock at 4:31.98. Officials then declared Larsson the champion: 4:31.981 to 4:31.983. Days later, the FINA rulebook was changed to declare that times would only be measured to a hundredth of a second.
I believe that there exists a rule (it's too late in the p.m. for me to go look it up so I'm paraphrasing from—poor—memory) that says that electronic timing equipment can measure down to the 1/1000th of a second but that only
times to 1/100th of a second will be recognized. Somebody else may have seen or read this somewhere; I can't have dreamed it (because I thought to myself "At World and Olympic level meets 'Why not?'")
Omega has a nice 'history of timekeeping' section on their web site:
www.omegawatches.com/index.php
Spectators in Munich witnessed the controversy of the first and only gold medal in the pool ever to be awarded on the basis of thousandths of a second which forced a change in rules. In the 400-metre medley, Gunnar Larsson, the double European champion from Sweden, and Tim McKee (USA) stopped the clock at 4:31.98. Officials then declared Larsson the champion: 4:31.981 to 4:31.983. Days later, the FINA rulebook was changed to declare that times would only be measured to a hundredth of a second.
