{"id":131274,"date":"2016-08-14T22:10:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T04:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/14\/why-are-there-so-many-ties-in-swimming.html"},"modified":"2016-08-14T22:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T04:10:25","slug":"why-are-there-so-many-ties-in-swimming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/14\/why-are-there-so-many-ties-in-swimming.html","title":{"rendered":"Why are there so many ties in swimming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short version: Timing could be far more precise &#8212; but the physics of concrete swimming pools would make that precision meaningless. Very cool intersection of physics and technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/regressing.deadspin.com\/this-is-why-there-are-so-many-ties-in-swimming-1785234795'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/yyx1sMoDEz98ic45OPwL51rx7yBvTmonCxIRshBePYyXvuAcRSQmqbjhkp8qL-TvLybkSW046ixm-kT2oeKDYIt1OQJaslwElQF3LtNi8KBaL18_-Qci9hm4YDLfVZngzHxO14z0Fb9LDhGKDyj6VV6SdttlKtot7wpZ5OAOC51JeFZTUpJ2UOLL6IpF-NrBcRFRVMbiR4O4=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/regressing.deadspin.com\/this-is-why-there-are-so-many-ties-in-swimming-1785234795'>This Is Why There Are So Many Ties In Swimming<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTonight three legends of swimming&mdash;Michael Phelps, Chad Le Clos, and L&aacute;szl&oacute; Cseh&mdash;turned in identical times to share silver in the 100m butterfly. Last night, Simone Manuel tied for gold with Canadian Penny Oleksiak in the 100m freestyle. Modern timing systems are capable of measuring down to the millionth of a second&mdash;so why doesn&rsquo;t FINA, the world swimming governing body, increase its timing precision by adding thousandths-of-seconds?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/b296oJcwrXH'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short version: Timing could be far more precise &#8212; but the physics of concrete swimming pools would make that precision meaningless. Very cool intersection of physics and technology. This Is Why There Are So Many Ties In Swimming Tonight three legends of swimming&mdash;Michael Phelps, Chad Le Clos, and L&aacute;szl&oacute; Cseh&mdash;turned in identical times to share &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/14\/why-are-there-so-many-ties-in-swimming.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are there so many ties in swimming?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28441,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/swimming-with-forks-not-oars.html","url_meta":{"origin":131274,"position":0},"title":"Swimming with forks, not oars","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 30-Jun-12 1:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Counter-intuitive, indeed -- spreading your fingers slightly to improve swimming speeds.Reshared post from +Guy Kawasaki(Sat05) Here's something counter intuitive: spreading out your fingers can make you swim faster even though there are spaces between them:http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/21309-fastest-swimmers-physics-hands.html#sciencesunday Google+: View post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":58,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/03\/shallow_end_of.html","url_meta":{"origin":131274,"position":1},"title":"Shallow end of the (gene) pool","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 3-Jul-03 11:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, if you want to build shallower public swimming pools -- or even rennovate old ones to not have a shallow end -- so that kids and families can wade...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;ZT &amp; PC&quot;","block_context":{"text":"ZT &amp; PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4649,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/26\/bt03_when_comic.html","url_meta":{"origin":131274,"position":2},"title":"BT03 &#8211; When Comics Reviews Collide!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 26-Jul-03 6:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When Margie and Katherine came home from the swimming pool, during the power outage, the garage door, obviously, wouldn't open. 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