Hi all!
I was very concerned about the runner that was disqualified in the
100m race because he was too fast on starting. Does anyone really
have some data on response times that would shed some light on this? I
heard he reacted with times of .08 sec two times in a row short of the
..10 sec it is supposed to take for people to react. Anyone responding in
less than the value of .10 sec is considered to have a "false start." I
wondered if they based their studies on olympic calibre reflexes. I really
felt bad for that 34 year-old runner. He definitely won't be back in 2000. If
that other runner's time was .08 or .09 I'm inclined to agree with the
announcer that science is taking over. I see little chance that two people
can quess within .02 sec of when a person is going to randomly fire a
starting gun three times in a row.
Gordon Shepherd
Guilford Tech Comm. Coll.
Jamestown, NC 27282