Race starts could give some athletes an unfair advantage

Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 09:20 in Health & Medicine

The alerting effect means competitors who have longer start processes finish slower, affecting standings aggregated across more than one heat. Effect is enough to deny a medal.

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