Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/02

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Subject: [Leica] EYE BLINK TIME?
From: tgray at 125px.com (Tim Gray)
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:35:45 -0500
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On Mon  1, Feb'10 at  8:50 AM -0800, Steve Barbour wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Frank Dernie wrote:
>
>> IIRC yes, in the Olympic Games there is a time after the gun goes off 
>> which is considered to be less than human reaction time, so if anybody 
>> goes during this period it is considered a false start.
>>
>> !!!
>
> amazing, documentaion of this fact/rule available?

This might have already been mentioned, but there was a British sprinter who 
was disqualified for this 10-15 years (?) ago in the Olympics.

The first false start is on the field - no disqualifications.  The second is 
a DQ on the runner who false started, no matter who it was the first time.


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