The Photo-Finish of One of the Biggest Olympic Rivalries | Olympics On The Record 

Biggest injustice to Merline Ottey, should have been a dead heat. But after all in was in the USA

Shows your class in noting and mentioning this. 👏

Amen to that! I have always been a Huge fan of Merlene...Blessings😇

Huh kiki

@Clean Up On Aisle 3 yes she is!

Her body and her form built perfectly for sprinting. Never seen any body look so elegant going down a track.

@@Bkamron Carl Lewis.

Wow wow that's true and am 44 now,truly how time flies 😊

@@decemberakins3683 and am 30😃

Soon I'll be 40 lol and I'm 24

25 now 😑

22

for reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal!

Aha, same things but in men's event

Yessss

Accurate! 👏🏾🇯🇲❤️

Indeed, she did 🇯🇲

Yeah. One wished that she had known how to dip well.

That’s what I thought too but congrats to Gail.

At 3:56 there is a photofinish, they did look at torso position and Devers was just a little bit faster (look at vertical red lines)

​@@Qtuz0vThey gave her for leaning head. One Luv ❤️!!!

Steroids vs Jamaica back then 😮🤔..

@@r.s2078 Ottey was also on it

Jamaica is on the winning end for the time being.

thats changed this time, italian white guy won the 100m gold.

@@annikamyren3026 yu bright like a load a s..t we dont need dope to COPE. Ottey is still ALIVE AND RUNNING. NO ILLNESSES NO ROTTEN MUSCLES. WHERE IS G. DEVERS????? ANSWER...DOWN UNDER....ASH TO ASH DUST TO DUST. KIDNEY FAILURE... THATS WHAT LONG TERM USE OF DRUGS DO.... DESTROYS YOUR INTERNAL ORGANS. KAPISH...

Facts but u know how they stay back then if u know what I mean

Mystery: *Look you stupid clown, the camera determines who wins not country, Ottey didn't win anything, you Jamaicans need to crying over that race, Ottey lost plain and simple.*

im jamaican and i can see usa won kmt

Darling... Devers is the clear winner. Ottey is a great runner. This race was Devers.

When Merlene Ottey got to the line in the photofinish they gave it to Gail Devers for the leaning head, we protested for the torso and they didn't give it on that basis. When it comes to Jamaica and USA in a photofinish with gambling involved they will never give it to Jamaica, facts not fiction. History has a way of repeating itself! Just like ​Noah didn't "BEAT" Kishane! When you have a photo finish that gives thousands of seconds, not hundredth, or tenth of a second, how the heck can someone say "Beat"!? He was given it arbitrarily on moving lines of camera, if you don't know about photo-engineering! I can see a tenth or even a hundredth of a second, but thousandth, oh no! They would have to do a run-off for both of them to break the deadlock! One Luv ❤!!!

@@ramonamaragh-campbell1628done what ? all they did was give the gold to the person you crossed the line first which was noah😂

Mine too

Ottey is the greatest female sprinter in history. She participated in six Olympics games but it was unfortunate that she was always deprived of a Gold medal.

@@amoz1957 She competed in 7 consecutive Games winning 9 Olympic medals Btw... @ 03:36 looks like confirmation of Merlene being robbed of a Gold medal 🥇

Don't worry...Now Jamaica got many stars 😎

​@PRL BHOORASINGH Jnr child she wasn't mfkn robbed. The whole photo shows Devers torso went over

Totally agree!

melanin don't crack

Stunning

Jelly tots be the Best she was known for that.

The jewelry is almost just as annoying. Almost .

Final thought as well

That cant be aerodynamical?

That was the style

It took them 4 minutes to decide

@@2kh22a A hasty decision as he said!

@@Pistolwhipperz And it took them 4 minutes to decide as he/she said!

@@koekenzopie5919 A hasty decision as he said!

@@Pistolwhipperz Temper, temper. You must be a really nice guy irl.

Is this why Ottey was Nicknamed the Bronze queen? Maybe because she never won Olympic gold🤧

@@jacquelinerussell8530 In sprints Ottey is way more of a legend than Devers ever will be. Devers is a legend only in her specialty: 100 m hurdles.

@danbotez1307 I feel you however she was never able to get that all illusive sought-after gold medal, but whatever it is what it is. I do and always have admired her dedication and love for the sport. I even salute her because without her, there would probably be no Shelly Ann Frasier-Price Sherika or Elaine. She was definitely a trailblazer

@@jacquelinerussell8530 Thank you for your thoughtful answer. She was not only a terrific athlete, but also a terrific human being. I respect her immensely.

@@danbotez1307 👍

How could that be legit?

@@thejoyofsoxmovie7211 it wasn't legit the world went crazy but this died. Natural death after a few days. I watched this race. I was glued to my television. Those days a lot of other countries suffered unfair and bias results. Steroids was the name of the game

U do not remember that. They have used the torso for decades

Exactly. Torso

Yup

@ 😐Umm no not the same time. That's why 1 got first and 1 got second place. Why do I bother w the internet sometimes I wonder...

@@SkinnyPimpSneakers I don't know if you found out yet but they do not record usually past the thousandths place value in track due to differences in the margin for error in the length of the track That's why it was a "photo-finish" that had to be determined that way their times were 10.94 seconds.

I think it was 6 thousandths.

It was in tens of thousandths - about 60 microseconds IIRC.

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I disagree coz as i look closer the right leg and the head of the american woman comes ahead than the jamaican woman on the finish line.

@@ivyamor8057 leg and head don't count it's the torso first that counts.

@@shanetasker6031 its not, haven't you notice that every time the runners reached the finish line they lengthen their head or feet ahead of their bodies. besides the judges knows the guidelines better..

@@ivyamor8057 it was athletics trainers who taught me this when I was in little athletics as a kid, any part of the torso not head or neck,I was taught to lunge my chest at the line.

@@shanetasker6031 the athletes shall be placed in which part of their bodies as distinguished like torso or the head arms legs hands or feet that reaches the vertical lane of the nearer edge of the finish line..thats the ruling accdg to international athletics asso. federations..lol

Ugh i feel like vomiting.

ew

Gare Bear I

LMAO. Welcome to 1996

Awwww... The 90's missed you then? lol

Udidb

Yes, she is!!! That's one fine piece of tall chocolate right their!!!!!

Agreed 100 %. A great sprinter as well.

Yes she is

Right?! Jamaican women are EVERYTHING.

Beautiful indeed, sleek like a Gazelle.

The torso play it back slowly ottey won She was robbed 2 years in a row on photo finishes Gail devers & gwen torrence

Agreed....

Doesn't hace to be the torso. She was outleaned by Devers, who rightfully won.

@@gpipeline By international athletic rules it is absolutely judged by the torso. Next time do some research before commenting to avoid embarrassment.

@@Yardie1682 she wasn’t robbed

Try your math again

Jarod MR nope, hes right

You're an idiot as well then. Ottey's first olympics was in 1980 when she was 20.

Jarod MR no need to get offended 😀

Jarod MR then the video was wrong

Back then I think politics played a huge role. USA being the bigger, more powerful country was always going to get the gold...but I'm Jamaican so I might not be the most objective of persons. lol

@@straydogg56 Your logic is flawed because US athletes have been screwed so many times at the Olympics by smaller nation's officials (see basketball, boxing and gymnastics).

We should stop letting foriegners run in our colleges and Universitys.

@@robertrivera2957 lol...you think that's what did it😂😂...Did Bolt run in your schools😂😂

@@robertrivera2957 go away troll.

go to.....you wanna talk dirt on ottey?wake up, all the americans possibly on special food treatment-look at gail or flo-jo,sorry to say,or marion jones,ottey competed with all of them..and all you can say, that she was hot?shes a queen at least!one of the greatest.....such a persistence

Marek Zaszlos Jamaica is only known for doing well in sprints. That's awesome! Not great at anything else, just three sprint races (100m, 200m and 4x100). Ottey has her own drug controversy too. Don't forget the reason she left Jamaica to compete for Slovenia, okay. Get off your high horse!

@@ResearchXProject2016 The reason ottey went to run for another country, is because she could no longer qualify any more. She was being beaten, by younger and stronger runners.

Where⁉️⁉️

nope she was 36 here

No it didn't, no matter how many times you say it.

You would be wrong there. Devers rightfully won.

IDIOT.

G.O.A.T??? 😁😂😃

@@gpipeline read the rules ottey clearly won & the JAAA did protest this its whose chest (torso ) cross first Not arms or legs

3 way?? No one ever remembered who won the Bronze.

They had to use the reverse angle on the photo to judge Gail as the winner. It was never used before. It was in Atlanta and they wanted the glory of the American winning on American soil. They should have awarded 2 gold medals.

😂 no she didn't🥇🇺🇲 your eyes dont mean 💩 to technology 🤡🤣

It's torso FIRST, Mister.