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geniice t1_iu4o14x wrote

Reply to comment by Jthundercleese in TIL Devon Allen, track & field athlete/Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver, was disqualified in the World Athletic Championships for a controversial false start. The starting blocks measured his reaction time from the time the gun went off at 0.099, which is 0.001 seconds faster than legally allowed. by The_Critical_Cynic

The athletes are free to show that can pass a random reaction time test with a better than 0.15 second time. Until then we can ignore such claims.

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Jthundercleese t1_iu52h8n wrote

So your assumption is that athletes are consistently guessing when the start time is? The science of reaction time doesn't support your BS.

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