imagine missing the last free McDonalds giveaway, that happened to me once, if only i could have arrived 0.5 seconds earlier. it wasn't just one meal too.
Fun fact: Olympic officials later confirmed they gave coach Stan Wright the wrong schedule... after Wright had already received all the blame in the press. So when the video claims that Wright was "working from the wrong schedule," the Olympics channel is conveniently leaving out *why* that was the case.
Finally I devoted my life for this 9 second race I’ve trained 7 days a week, spent millions of dollars on professional training, and became a representative of my country. *false starts*
It’s so nerve wracking though. Those seconds waiting for the gun feels like years 😂 it was bad enough at national races for me, but I couldn’t imagine how bad it would be during the Olympics 😳
I hate when it happens during distance races I run during track season. I'm so nervous already, but then I have to start the race over, even though it's someone else's fault.
If he started early it was like miliseconds before every time I hear the sound before he moves. It looks like his reaction time is just way better than everyone else, although I'm not versed in the exact rules of it... maybe you have to wait until the sound ends?
Human reaction time has never been clocked to go below 100ms. So if the sprinter starts less than 100ms after the gun fires, he wasn't listening and guessed instead.
As a swimmer, missing my race is something that I dread often. You never think about it actually happening because, it shouldn’t. It’s the last thing you’re worried about. You trust yourself and your coaches to keep you on track. I’ve missed a few races before and even at low level meets, the feeling is almost unbearable in the moment. During the last story I could feel what they were feeling when they saw their race, just like the feeling of looking up from your chair and seeing your heat swimming in the pool. It’s awful. For them it must of been more than I could ever imagine...
Chloe Ake Me too. I’m 13 and in some competitions, I am put with swimmers 5 years older. To be honest, I never missed or have been disqualified in any of my events. And, I’m not really good at sprints. I’m a distance swimmer.
Bella Mendes same! Like I’ve never missed a race, but I’ve been disqualified once or twice and some of my friends have missed one or two races, and they are almost always able to swim it even if it’s with 18 year olds🤷♀️
"forgotten for ever", "only managed silver" these guys are still Olympic athletes, he "only managed silver" at the Olympics, that's not something you can belittle like that, c'mon
In India, Olympic Silver Medal winner received $200,000 to $500,000, from the government, besides other sponsors and sports contracts. Gold winner could get more than a million usd, there have been only one single gold medal winner in India in entire Olympic games
I think it has to be put into context. I would be ecstatic to even finish an Olympic marathon. But if Eliud Kipchoge got 2nd place then he would have "only managed silver".
Dimitar A the have special blocks with pressure sensors so they can tell if the pressure increases before the gun goes its a false start not just movement
You can’t really blame these athletes. Imagine training for YEARS, and all that training and dedication until the day of your performances, only to be nervous because everything that you’ve ever worked for and trained for, has come to this.
Right I can’t see it either....he probably was cheated cause to me he didn’t move but I can say he move really little slightly in the legs if you know what I mean🤷🏾♂️
@@swav.zielin Wouldn't you have checked it several times reading it from different signs in different areas? Sitting around waiting at tournaments like these being bored as you can't go out drinking before your race and you can't over eat/indulge so you have to sit around a lot and all you'd have is your ticket/card/pass that says what race you are in and when it's on but they somehow just asked their coach to tell them when it's on and in no conversation with anyone else did they get informed that they had their time wrong???
False starts don’t need movement to be called. If the pressure censor feels something before the gun goes off it’s a false start. It’s meant to be reaction time not your guessing powers
Christie proved his reactions were quicker than the time used by the olympics for a false start. This was something he could repeat, so arguably not a false start, just a better start than they allowed.
Imagine spending your whole life preparing, waking up at 4 AM for years, going to practice everyday, And then your coach gives you the wrong f*cking schedule
I was once placed 19th in a prelims swim meet which means I missed being an alternate by 1 place.( alternates have to go in case someone drops out) On the way home my coach calls to tell me that they failed to remove the disqualified swimmers from the finals roster and I actually made it as an alternate. Made it back and got changed just in time to see the race finish with 1 empty lane.
It's so stupid how you get eliminated for false starts especially if it's multiple people. I would absolutely destroy my coaches face if he caused me to miss a race.
Reading about the controversy, it appears it was more the fault of the Olympics organisers than the coach. But of course a video uploaded by the official Olympics channel would blame the coach entirely...
they work out the reaction time based on how fast the sound of the gun going off will reach the athletes(speaker behind each athlete nowadays) and how fast the sound can travel to the brain and for the brain to get the body to start the muscles moving. This is currently 100m/s
Not really, people have calculated the fastest ever possible reaction a human being could have to the gun, and it is 1/10 of a second. If your reaction time is under that, it means you started pushing on the blocks before you even heard the shot
legionaries Ok so in races, there’s a gun sound that signifies the start of the race and you’re not allowed to move until the gun sounds. If you move before the gun sounds, it is called a false start. Hope this helps.
The first guy shouldn’t have been found guilty because on his third go he was right on time and just had a faster reaction time then everyone else. bruhhhhhh that is some bs none of those people deserved for their careers to be over
there's actually now rules that you have to start 0.1 seconds AFTER the gun, because they've determined that to be the limit of human reaction speed combined with distance from the sound, etc.
@@andrewf8366 Which is why several of the false starts occurred because the contestant was LOOKING at the starting gun, not listening to it. This gains them (especially the guy in the leftmost lane) a significant advantage over those who respond to the sound.
One time at sports day i was doing 100m finals and i started to run and won the race but then i relised that it was a false start and i jist didnt hear the second shot
I think the saddest part is that it wasn't even the coach or any of the athlete's faults. Coach Stan Wright literally checked with the Olympic officials to make sure he had it correct, which they falsely confirmed; the schedule had been lately amended by the IAAF and some teams weren't properly notified (the winner of the 100 and 200 metre sprint Valeriy Borzov later admitted that he had nearly missed his quarter-final as well due to the same issue). Stan Wright saw footage of it starting from the Olympic Village and desperately made a dash for it in an ABC-TV car with the three sprinters, but unfortunately, it was too late for Hart and Robinson to compete, and an appeal by the USA team failed to reverse their elimination. Taylor, the third sprinter, arrived just seconds before his and managed to grab second overall despite being unprepared. It's especially saddening since Wright's name got dragged through the mud for it even when the USA Olympic Committee cleared him of all blame (even to this day, as evidenced in this video) and his career "was never the same after that", as well as the fact that Hart and Robinson held the fastest Olympic times that year and likely would've taken the top spots if it hadn't been for the misunderstanding :( At least the athletes still managed to be successful after that, with Hart securing the 4 x 100 m relay gold for USA at the same Olympics and later setting a world record for the Masters 100 m that would last 14 years, while Robinson went on to become the head track coach at Florida A&M University, coaching multiple Olympic medalist Walter Dix.
honest question: If Usain Bolt in his prime ever mistook the time for a race and wasn't at the start line do you think the meet officials would still start the race?
@@avox5651 the human brain, and therefore the body, can only move 1 tenth of a second when it comes to reaction time. And there is tons of equipment there to find and stop a false start. So no, you're wrong
The worst disqualification was Linford's. The rules state that there should be no movement until after the gun. Linford did not move before the gun, in fact he only started to move 0.082 seconds after it had fired thanks to his amazing reactions. But a science study reviewed sprinters reaction times and that the minimum theoretical time for a reaction was 0.1 seconds. Linford was robbed because he just had very fast reactions!
I just came back from an athletic competition, (4x400m and 1.5km) and false starts are so common amongst sprinters it was real interesting to see people take off 2 mins before the pistol went off.
It happened with me too once in school exam. I prepared for history paper but in exam hall it turned out to be geography paper. It was gut wrenching for me.
There are so many comments about Jurgen Hingsen's third false start in 1988 (1:36). On his third start his reaction time was measured at 0.099 seconds - the legal limit was/still is 0.100 seconds. So you are talking 0.001 seconds or one-thousandth of a second too early. Just to point out he didn't start before the gun was fired, he started after the gun fired but the smallest possible amount before the minimum accepted reaction time. Linford Christie did a similar thing in 1996 (3:51) but his reaction time on the second false start was 0.086 seconds so 0.014 seconds too early. Hope this helps someone understand why they were both disqualified.
I wonder how many months I've been skipping through recommended garbage while this awesome video was hiding in the RU-vid shadows waiting for me to find it...
If a sprinter starts after the gun has been fired, how can it be considered as a false start? He reacted faster than others and it's a quality to be appreciated.
I fail to see Bolden's false start at 3:40. I watched it several times, even at half speed, and it looks to me that he did not jump the gun. Am I alone in thinking this?
Hi, I have a question - from where you get all these materials in such a good quality, e.g. - Olympics in Seoul, 1988? Maybe someone else knows that? :)
Lone Wolf Rider You think so? Only for a few minutes of movie in a good quality? 😉 Besides, I think somewhere must be a good copy of it, just check the movies from cinema out from this period. Technology was good enough to record in very good quality. The question is - where are these archival materials?
Łukasz Gryc It’s called upscaling. The quality of a video being “increased” to look good on higher resolutions than the original resolution of the video.
Christie's first false start was false. However, his second wasn't, it was just a *good* start, and the guy in lane 1 rose virtually at the same time. It was the same with Ato Bolton's start, that wasn't false, either. I've slowed down the footage and they both look fine. Christie was robbed of defending his title. Okay, you could say he should have been more careful, as he was an experienced athlete, but it was an unfair decision.
1:20 but it looked like his foot didnt move or go over line before the shot. are they simply supposed to stay motionless until?? 1:35 i think that 3rd start was spot on 4:00 looked like he was simply quickest on the reaction
You have to stay still until you hear the gun go off. It’s been shown the fastest human reaction time is .1 second, therefore, those people that are “spot on” jumped the gun because they physically couldn’t have reacted under a tenth of a second.
has to be completely motionless form the time "set" is said until the gun goes off. You turn your head DQ, move your hand DQ Move your foot DQ etc etc.
At the 5:22 mark, strange how the reenactment of Robinson and Hart used two different TV's to show them watching the their live race happen. The first TV uses a toggle on/off switch whereas later a different TV uees a pull-out on/off switch.
Correction: It is the same TV. They just pretend to turn it on using two different switches. Not really sure why it has two diferent on/off switches. It looks like it may be a Mitsubishi TV.
The claim that Hart and Robinson ran 9.95 is false. Hundredths of a second were not recorded when hand timing was used. They ran a hand timed 9.9 in Eugene Oregon which roughly equated to 10.1 electronic timing. Since Borzov ran 10.14 in the final when easing up at the finish they were certainly not sure of a gold. Borzov showed his class by demolishing the best Americans in the 200m a few days later.
More than the gold medal, Mike Marsh is famous for nearly breaking the 200 meters World record in the series, finishing 2 hundreds of second behind the mark after cutting his effort way before the line.
I recall Hingsen's failure. We were all frustrated that he did not play safe. Even with a snail start he would at least had a chance for some medals. Strange.
I have a question. I don't watch Olympics often but I wanna ask If anyone false starts so is he/she not allowed to race in their whole career?? After 2 false starts are they not allowed to race in the next one??