New Olympic Clocks Go for the Gold
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In the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, German racer Georg Hackl took the gold in the men's luge by just 13 milliseconds, or thousandths of a second, then the closest finish in Olympic history. Four years later at Nagano, countrywoman Silke Kraushaar won the women's luge by just two milliseconds-the new closest finish in Olympic history. "Two thousandths is nothing!" the silver medalist-yet another German-said at the time. "It's one centimeter, I think. Unbelievable!" Which led Olympic officials to ask: could their timing equipment really be believed, right down to the millisecond? Less
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