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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 ...
In track and field, the end of an athlete’s lap is determined by the moment their torso crosses the finish line. ... in the 100-m final on Sunday in a race that came down to a remarkable photo ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 race had one qualifying race for Convertibles and one for the hardtop Grand National cars. Bob Welborn, winner of the 100-mile (160 km) Grand National qualifying race earlier in the week, started on the pole position. [10] Shorty Rollins won the Convertible qualifying race and started second. Twenty of the 59 cars in the Daytona 500 were ...
(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 ...