jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoUS gymnast Jordan Chiles may lose Olympic bronze after court rulingwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down12
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minus-squarethemeatbridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27arrow-down3·1 month agoThey have 1 minute to register a challenge. They submitted the challenge in 1 minute, 4 seconds. So 4 seconds. That’s like the amount of time it takes for someone to say “write down the time.”
minus-squareAdamEatsAss@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down3·1 month agoThe men’s 100 meter dash was “won” by 0.005s. the Olympic committee cares about time, no matter how small.
minus-squarelemonmelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·1 month agoBut they don’t care as much about getting the ruling right in the first place? Is the timer on an appeal as precisely administered as a competiton timer, or is it handled with the same attention to detail as correctly scoring a routine?
They have 1 minute to register a challenge. They submitted the challenge in 1 minute, 4 seconds.
So 4 seconds. That’s like the amount of time it takes for someone to say “write down the time.”
The men’s 100 meter dash was “won” by 0.005s. the Olympic committee cares about time, no matter how small.
But they don’t care as much about getting the ruling right in the first place? Is the timer on an appeal as precisely administered as a competiton timer, or is it handled with the same attention to detail as correctly scoring a routine?