Tag: Olympic Games

Stylized illustration of an Olympic sprint finish line rendered like a line-scan photo-finish image, with runners'torsos crossing a glowing vertical timing plane and a faint strip of hundredths-and-thousandths timing marks along the bottom, evoking how photo-finish cameras capture a moving slice of time rather than a normal photograph.

How Does Photo-Finish Timing Decide a Dead Heat?

 cacophony  11/03/2026

A photo finish doesn’t eliminate ties with better cameras — it makes every sport decide, in writing, how many decimal places of a line-scan image it actually trusts.

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