17th February 2007, 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by AngryPixie
This should turn up a few variations. The average of the answers will probably be close to the mark.
When developing systems I've always used 2.4m (roughly 8 feet). What about you?
Anybody know the official distance?
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I went through this painful exercise before.
Once you think about it and look at enough official photos - which now are actually a composite of ~2,000 per second slits of the finishing post, it appears that a length is actually a fraction of a second.
That's the only thing that makes sense. Your beaten margin (hence position) is not determined by how far away you were from the winner when it nosed over the line, but by how many seconds after the winner your nose arrives.
The standard 6 Lengths = 1 second appears the closest. |