BTW, swimming is different. Timing is via a touch sensor. But gold medals have been lost by visibly touching first but not touching hard enough. There's a good paper on the spurious accuracy of sports measurement here... http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0193723516672905
BTW, swimming is different. Timing is via a touch sensor. But gold medals have been lost by visibly touching first but not touching hard enough. There's a good paper on the spurious accuracy of sports measurement here... http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0193723516672905