Re: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-21 Thread sean other
Why try to eliminate false starts??? Its all part of the sport:- people trying to get as fast out of the blocks as possible...there are bound to be mistakes. Sean --- "Wayne T. Armbrust" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (whoever that is) wrote: I read, but very rarely

RE: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-21 Thread sean other
Justin Clouder wrote: There are very very few reactions in the 0.1 to 0.12 range, if any. There has never been evidence of any athlete, even you Mr Drummond, being able to react faster than 0.1. At some point in the past someone could have written the following: "There are very very few

Re: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-21 Thread LTricard
In a message dated 3/21/2001 4:34:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why try to eliminate false starts??? Its all part of the sport:- people trying to get as fast out of the blocks as possible...there are bound to be mistakes yeah...why is that s hard for others

Re: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-21 Thread mmrohl
Netters Darrell wrote: The good thing is that the sprinters know this, and it enables them to tolerate the ignorance that comes from the peanut gallery. Oh now isn't that a nice statement! :) Let them eat cake! "scratch a liberal and you know what you find under his skin? An

Re: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-20 Thread Wayne T. Armbrust
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (whoever that is) wrote: I read, but very rarely do I feel the need to post. All you armchair athletes have the audacity to sit here and say that false starting is unsportmanlike conduct?!? LOL Give me a break. I've also read that it is unfair to anticipate the

Re: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-20 Thread CPoTaf
Wayne wrote: What is your suggestion, Prince, on how to eliminate false starts?   You can't!  Should every distance runner be expelled from the race if they touch or push a runner?  Come on, get serious, it's part of the game.  The 2 false start rule aids that purpose.  Very rarely do you

RE: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-20 Thread Justin Clouder
Hi All On this point: My understanding is that this has been extensively researched, with a generous allowance made below the fastest reaction tested. You're correct, but this test was done on military men, not athletes! As I understand it there has never been a test done

RE: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-20 Thread Kurt Bray
Justin says: As I understand it there has never been a test done among any group which showed a reaction time to aural stimulus of less than a fifth of a second. Top class athletes are thus allowed to react twice as fast as anyone else has ever been shown to do. That, to me, is more than

Re: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-20 Thread Wayne T. Armbrust
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wayne wrote: What is your suggestion, Prince, on how to eliminate false starts? You can't! Should every distance runner be expelled from the race if they touch or push a runner? Come on, get serious, it's part of the game. The 2 false start rule aids that

RE: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-20 Thread Mcewen, Brian T
After reading this I get the feeling that [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] might really be the same clown ... err, I mean person. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:58 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:

Re: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-20 Thread Randy Treadway
Perhaps they have microneural transplant splices surgically implanted at the neural junctions. Nanotechnology - the future of track? Don It might be easier to just exercise mind control over the starter, so that he fires the gun exactly WHEN YOU WANT HIM TO. ---Madame Clio, now available as

Re: t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-20 Thread GHTFNedit
In a message dated Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:31:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think I am accurate in saying that the reaction time is unresearched because the last time it's been researched, as you have stated, was up through 1980's. It's 2001. The world record has

t-and-f: Unsportmanlike conduct LOL

2001-03-19 Thread CPoTaf
I read, but very rarely do I feel the need to post. All you armchair athletes have the audacity to sit here and say that false starting is unsportmanlike conduct?!? LOL Give me a break. I've also read that it is unfair to anticipate the gun. Well, let's look at it from a sprinters point of