Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh pretty fast. In fact, you could say the two US sprinters are equally fast. And that's the problem.
During yesterday's women's 100 meter Olympics qualifier, both finished the race in 11.068 seconds. Not even the judges high speed camera determine if one was faster than the other. The downside is that both placed third, and the rules state that the three fastest runners get a berth to the Olympic games.
This type of high-speed camera takes three pictures every thousandth of a second, or a spread of 300 nanoseconds between frames. - and it's a real issue when you can't separate two racers when you're shooting them at 3000 pictures per second. It's doubtful either will concede their third place spot, so they have to settle it an analog way - by flipping a quarter - or having a run off.
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