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The photo finish has been used in the Olympics since as early as 1912, when the Stockholm Olympics used a camera system in the men's 1500 metres race. [7] The 1948 Olympics saw the finish of the men's 100 metre race determined with the use of photo finish equipment provided by Swiss watchmaker Omega and the British Race Finish Recording Company ...
The system is commonly used in track and field as well as athletic performance testing, horse racing, dog racing, bicycle racing, rowing and auto racing. In these fields a photo finish is used. It is also used in competitive swimming, for which the swimmers themselves record a finish time by touching a touchpad at the end of a race. In order to ...
In a true photo finish, this year’s Kentucky Derby-winning horse, Mystik Dan, didn’t even win by a full nose.. A photo shared on the official Kentucky Derby page on the social media platform X ...
An extremely rare photo finish triple dead heat, recorded in a 1953 harness race at Freehold Raceway. Freehold Raceway was the site of the first ever photo finish triple dead heat win in a harness race. Double, triple and even quadruple dead heats were more commonly awarded in horse racing when finishes were judged by the naked eye in real time.
On the track, the men's 100-meter race lived up to every bit of its hype with a thrilling finish. In the pool, the U.S. women's swim team won the 4x100m medley relay and Bobby Finke won the 1,500m ...
NASCAR fans were treated to an all-time finish as Daniel Suarez won his second NASCAR Cup Series race by a margin of 0.003 seconds over second place and 0.007 over third.
(The following is an excerpt from the CBS television coverage of the race) David Hobbs: "The white flag is out, one lap to go. This is it; last lap." The cars of Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison from the 1979 Daytona 500 in the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Ken Squier: "Stand by, stand by for a photo finish. Two of the greatest fiddling here ...
Noah Lyles, of the United States, in lane seven, wins the men's 100-meter final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France.