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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We must drive all the way to the finish. Cavic just finished poorly.
Poorly or not Cavic touched the wall first. Omega official said litteraly that and we all saw it with our own eyes.
i265.photobucket.com/.../image.jpg
Are you all blind?
No we are all not blind - I would check the order on those in photo bucket as it would be easy to take the pictures out of order and show a different result, because the SI photos and other sources show a much different picture - while extremely close. First the SI photos show Phelps on the left and Cavic on the right also the sequence is odd in the photo bucket and its Phelps, not Felps. Plus Phelps wore a black cap, in the photobucket he appears to be wearing a white cap.
Interesting how the Speedo logo has migrated from the left side of Cavic's chest to the right side in the couple hundredths of a second between those two photos.
Nice hack job. :)
Actually these photos are easy to explain and don't even require Photoshop, so I apologize for my earlier suggestion that these photos have been digitally altered. Cavic and Phelps also swam head-to-head in Beijing in prelims (the final heat, heat 9). In that race Cavic was in lane 5 and went 50.76. Phelps was in lane 4 and went 50.87. In finals their lane assignments were reversed, explaining why the position of Phelps to Cavic is exactly the opposite as in all the other photos we've seen. To summarize, the photos posted by joakimvitriol show the finish of the prelims heat, not finals. QED.
results.beijing2008.cn/.../SWM021909.shtml
Photo Shop does wonders this is some work that can be done, click on the pic.
I was wondering how she got that close to that croc/gator.
Bottom line is that the photos have been swapped out apparently taking two different races and mixing them together for the "desired" result.
Bottom line is that the photos have been swapped out apparently taking two different races and mixing them together for the "desired" result.
Yeah, I thought they were both shots from prelims, but you're probably right. The top shot is from finals and mirrored (and that's why the Speedo logo is on the wrong side) so that Phelps and Cavic appear in the correct lanes to correspond to the bottom shot, which is a shot from their prelim race where Cavic did win.
