But a 5000m run, 12.5 laps around a 400m track that has its own tolerance,
is now subject to WR improvements by 0.01 (which is exactly what happened
when Said Aouita first broke Moorcroft's WR of 13:00.42 minutes) - why,
then, did IAAF increase the 0.01 measurement range for every distance on the
track?
..because that would increase the number of WR broken, apparently. And if a
dead heat occurred they'll still separate it by thousandths of a second.
Different international federations have different policies.
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>(Remember the tie in the 50m free in swimming? They only time to the
>100th now, ignoring thousandths. If they did that in track, we'd have
>lots of ties, and Oba would have a bronze medal.)
They used to time to thousandths in swimming until it was pointed out to
them that, at swimming speeds, 1/1000th of a second does not represent very
much distance. In fact it was less than the tolerance to which they could
construct pools. Thus, one swimmer's lane could be several thousandths of a
second shorter or longer than another's and hence timing to 1/1000ths was
meaningless and unfair.
Kurt Bray
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