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That's already the case in swimming, as I commented a few days ago. It's not possible to build swimming pools to tolerances such that timing to 1/1,000th of a
by dredmorbius 2y ago
That's already the case in swimming, as I commented a few days ago.
It's not possible to build swimming pools to tolerances such that timing to 1/1,000th of a second would be fair (that is, based on athletic performance rather than distance traveled), so swimming events are only judged to the nearest 1/100th of a second. Finishers within the same 1/100th are considered to have tied.
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FINA standards: <https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2022/02/08/77c3058d-b549-4543-8524-ad51a857864e/210805-Facilities-Rules_clean.pdf https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2022/02/08/77c3058d...> (PDF).
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 2y agoI know it’s vanishingly rare, but in the hypothetical where one swimmer finishes at X.004 and another finishes at X.005, does that mean they will get scored as X.00 and X.01 and not tie despite being only 1/1000th of a second different? I know for normal meets that’s what would happen, but didn’t find an answer in the FINA standards doc for the olympics/world championships.
- dredmorbius 2y agoMy read is that any finish within the same 0.01 second is a tie, but a hypothetical finish of, say, 40s.009 and 40s.011 would be ranked 1st and 2nd respectively, despite being only 0.002s different. The docs I've linked aren't fully clear on this and I've not found official rules.