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[Herman De Wael]

Herman De Wael wrote:

> Do you know the story of the swimming gold medal (I should look up the 
> exact dates) where a gold was awarded on a thousandthst of a second. 
> Later measurements revealed that the winner's lane was a millimeter 
> shorter than his opponent and the silver winner had actually swam 
> faster? Since then, all swimming times have been rounded to a one 
> hundredth, and if they are equal, the places and medals are shared.
> 

It was the 400m individual medley in 1972 in Munchen, where Swede 
Gunnar Larsson was declared the winner over Tim McKeee (US) by 
4:31.981 to 4:31.983.

Incidentally, this was the first Olympics where electronic timing to 
0.01 was used, but then to also use it for a difference of 0.002 - 
that has been reviewed since.

-- 
Herman DE WAEL
Antwerpen Belgium
http://www.hdw.be