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Subject: [Leica] EYE BLINK TIME? FALSE START????????????? AFTERTHE GUN?????????
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:57:34 -0800
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On Feb 1, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Matthew B. Filippini wrote:

> 
> Steve Barbour wrote:
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> 
>> I'd love to see some sort of documentation of this fact/rule...
>> 
>> pseudo documentation will do...   (written, with out an IIRC)
>> 
>> :-)
>> 
>> 
>> Steve
> 
> Here you go:  from the IAAF (International Amateur Athletic Association, 
> the sport's governing body) rulebook:
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> 
> 
> Rule 161-2:
> 
> "...The Starter and/or an assigned Recaller shall wear
> headphones in order to clearly hear the acoustic signal emitted when
> the apparatus detects a false start (i.e. when reaction time is less than
> 100/1000ths of a second). As soon as the Starter and/or an assigned
> Recaller hears the acoustic signal, and if the gun is fired, there shall
> be a recall and the Starter shall immediately examine the reaction
> times on the false start control apparatus in order to confirm which
> athlete(s) is/are responsible for the false start. This system is strongly
> recommended for all other competitions...."



sounds like the real deal....   ugh.


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> Matt
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