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The Olympics Replaced Their Starting Gun For A Strange Reason!

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beth_burton 2 weeks, 5 days ago

This timeline fucking sucks

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aprilclark960 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Olympic shooters are not anything special

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danielleadams340 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Considering that sound travels roughly 770mph, at that distance there is no possible way for there to be any kind of delay significant enough to impact the race. The sound of that gunshot is reaching every runner at basically the same time.

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rebecca.jordan 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Ouuuu shiiii

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christy_cooper 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Then why is the gun always smoking 😭

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victoire.lucas 2 weeks, 5 days ago

looks like someone took apart a trombone to create a pistol

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daniel_garcia 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Wait till they learn electrons don't travel to all the speakers at the same speed. So dumb and pedantic lol

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manyadaylight5 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Ouuu shii

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danielle_medina 2 weeks, 5 days ago

cant hear the pistol.. get a bigger pistol

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agathe_prévost 2 weeks, 5 days ago

don’t ask me the color of anything in this video

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robertvaleon36 2 weeks, 5 days ago

why dont they use like... a green light?

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micheal.turner 2 weeks, 5 days ago

People don't seem to realize that speed is not that fast. Inner and outer stagger lines in 400 are around 50 meters apart so the difference in sound would be around 0.15 seconds half of that if it was shot in equal distance from both ends (in which case those somewhere in the middle would hear it first)

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benitosolorzano76 2 weeks, 5 days ago

didnt explain anything about the new gun. waste of time

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rodrigo.mendes 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Yeah yeah piston or something 👀

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lilia_medrano 2 weeks, 6 days ago

poprostu odejmijcie czas jaki dociera do ludzi od czasu wyniku to takie proste

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carrie.chambers 2 weeks, 6 days ago

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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damien_davies 2 weeks, 6 days ago

does it exist in this world? then it is real T_T

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keith.mitchell 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Literally just Excuses

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hugo.ozuna 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Just update to all l.e.d. strips on the lane divides.

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trinidad_apodaca 2 weeks, 6 days ago

Holy pointless outrage