The Olympics Replaced Their Starting Gun For A Strange Reason!

There also was an incident years ago where a TV set at an airport bar broadcasting the Olympics was mistaken for an actual gunshot at JFK AIRPORT, causing a stampede effect where people mistakenly thought there was an active shooting to flee

Bro i sware its because i heard the sound 0.000001 sec late

Now because the speed of light is unfair, they hooked up atomic clocked to each runner to notify them at exactly the same time with the same cable length

Where do I buy that first spring pistol thing

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Korean runner are just model 😩

Yeah yeah piston or something 👀

Ah yes. The 0.01 second difference mattered so much

The difference in the speed of sound across less than 40 FEET is beyond negligible.

What bro tells me after getting dead last

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Huh, never seen a 5 hour short before 🤔

Huh, there was a breath of wind from behind one of the athletes.

Yet you can still get DQ for reaction too fast 😂

I didn’t hear a word

According to google, the average gap between 1st and 2nd in Olympic sprinting (the closest it’s going to get on average) is 80ms on the 100m, and 150ms on the 200m. In order for the gun sound to swap first and second in the 100m, the first and second place runners would have to be 90ft (27m) apart at the start. In order to swap positions of the 200m, they would have to be 169ft (51m) apart. Sound is fast. Now it isn’t to say it’s impossible, the closest finish (5ms in 2024) would only require the two to be 6ft (2m) apart. Which would only be two lanes. From the very inside lane, to the 8th lane is a ~28ms difference, with it being less as you get closer to the inside. A large majority of the time it won’t make a difference, but it can, especially at a high level on shorter distances. Which is why it’s probably good that something is being done

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"runner still reacted to the real gun" why do I think that is so dumb for runner to do that

Number 825 where u been at my whole life

I am a bit glad the gun isn't real anymore, its not as if the gun is worse, plus real bullets after flying through the air had an high possibility to land and embed itself in nearby roofs