They have adjusted the chip times from yesterday to today. The 42nd place finisher, for example, had a 25 second differential yesterday and now it is 5 seconds. The chip time has been increased. Regards, Martin
"Post, Marty" wrote: > I might have missed some of the follow-up conversation on this but I do not > see where you are getting this information from. > > I am looking at a set of results from the press room and the following is a > sample of the times: > > Place/Name/Chip Time/Gun Time > > 11. Ben Kimondiu/2:13:55/2:13:57 > 12. Kyle Baker/2:14:12/2:14:13 > 13. Clint Verran/2:14:16/2:14:17 > 14. Keith Dowling/2:14:21/2:14:22 > 15. Ryan Shay/2:14:29/2:14:30 > 16. Peter De La Cerda/2:14:40/2:14:41 > 17. Kentaro Ito/2:14:40/2:14:41 > 18. Josh Cox/2:15:00/2:15:01 > 19. Ian Syster/2:16:02/2:16:04 > 20. Abdelah Behar/2:16:12/2:16:14 > > Weldon Johnson, the women's pace-setter started well behind the start line > and had chip/gun times of 2:17:50 and 2:18:10. The next guy with a bigger > discrepancy was the 35th finisher > > The top 10 women had identical chip/gun times; after that a series of 2-3 > second differences appears. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 4:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: t-and-f: chip vs. gun times at Chicago > > Looking at the Chicago results, virtually every person outside the top ten, > including names like Kimondiu, de la Cerda, Dowling, Cox, and Shay, had gun > times that were 20-25 seconds slower than their chip times. > > I've seen pictures of the Boston start, and heard similar stories from New > York, with the elite getting a substantial buffer zone on the masses. But do > even sub-2:15 guys now count as the masses and have to give up what appears > to > be, based on the time involved, upwards of 100 meters? I can't imagine any > race actually has a buffer zone that size - that's bigger than a city block > in > most downtowns. What's going on here? > > Another question: are the split times listed chip times? Kimondiu's half-way > split (1:02:10) is faster than the top finishers by almost exactly the > difference between his gun- and chip times at the finish. My interpretation > is that he made up the 21-second gap from the start and was running with the > leaders at halfway, but maybe I should read all the reports for myself. > > david
