If there was a sprinter with inhuman reaction times who was false starting almost every race they would change the rules, but for now we know anyone who reacts too fast is just guessing.
Yeah, you should be allowed to guess it right and DQed for moving before the gun.
That will just add an undesirable element of random luck based on guessing. Having a cutoff known to be humanly impossible is fair provided it is indeed humanly impossible.
Some athletes are too fast, and get DQ more than others. For example Richard Kilty:
I have been DQ 5x for false starting between 0.089& 0.099 (4 of them being 0.97 or above)including European 100m final. None were an anticipation,all a true reaction to the gun. I think the The limit should be 0.08 sadly athletes DQd regularly with visibly no false start 👎🏻
The simple auditory reaction time is one of the fastest reaction times and is thought to be rarely less than 100 ms. The current false start criterion in a sprint used by the International Associa...
If it was allowed all sprinters would be coached to (literally) jump the gun on the first go. Every race would have a false start as a defacto strategy.
2 women DQd from the womens 100m semi for reacted thousandths of a second too fast. Seems a bit absurd to me no?
They aren't reacting too fast to the gun. They are reacting before they can hear the gun.
0.004 seconds difference is nearly negligible in terms of how long it takes for the sound to reach the athlete. If they want to actually make it scientific then each lane should have a different reaction time because lane 8 is further from the gun than lane 1…
Yeah, my problem with this is, that just bc you measure something doesn’t make it meaningful. I’m going to read more about how they actually perform the measurement. Given the uncertainties present, I can’t see how they can be sure to within 1 ms
Yeah, you should be allowed to guess it right and DQed for moving before the gun.
That will just add an undesirable element of random luck based on guessing. Having a cutoff known to be humanly impossible is fair provided it is indeed humanly impossible.
Why would it be an undesirable element? How much luck is involved and n distance runners being boxed in or tripped?
If you kept letting them try again, then it would be a guessing competition. But they don’t keep letting them try. Guess wrong once, and you are out. I don’t think anyone would start risking a DQ if you allowed a .01 reaction. But you’d have fewer restarts.
The .10 rule sounds more arbitrary then scientific.
2 women DQd from the womens 100m semi for reacted thousandths of a second too fast. Seems a bit absurd to me no?
They aren't reacting too fast to the gun. They are reacting before they can hear the gun.
Still believe this take with Devon Allen? Nobody cares until it’s an American getting DQd, typical of you guys. Everyone hates the rule now that it took out your star