• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.”

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      5 months ago

      The men’s 100 meter dash was “won” by 0.005s. the Olympic committee cares about time, no matter how small.

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        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?