{"id":496,"date":"2012-06-28T15:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2012-06-28T15:36:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T22:36:51","slug":"2012-366-day-180-dead-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/2012-366-day-180-dead-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"2012-366 Day 180 &#8211; Dead Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, that&#8217;s not the title of my latest suspense novel (or Richard Castle&#8217;s for that matter, although I imagine it soon will be), but the technical term for a tie in the world of track and field. Why bring that up? Well, if you&#8217;ve been following the U.S. Olympic trials recently (c&#8217;mon, surely you have?), you may have noticed that the third member of the Women&#8217;s 100 meter sprint team has yet to be decided, because the third place finisher could not be determined. Jess and I were actually watching live (well, time-shifted live) when it happened to cheer on Allyson Felix (did I mention we went to school with her? Oh yeah, I did, <a href=\" http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/?p=462\" title=\"Pictures IV\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>At the time, it was actually determined that Allyson had finished in fourth place by .001 seconds (which always reminds me of Jerry Seinfeld&#8217;s bit on the Olympics (particularly starting at 1:05 in the clip, although the whole thing is spot on):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xK9rbwM3omA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It actually wasn&#8217;t until two days later (because it actually hadn&#8217;t been decided until a day later) that I found out the third place spot was in a dead heat and they had to figure out something to do about it. And they had to figure out something to do about it because they didn&#8217;t have any rules in place to handle the situation (a male sprinter in another article I read said that he had been told ties were impossible). Then I came across this article and video on the Sports Illustrated website (actually it was in my RSS feed, but same difference) and it was <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2012\/olympics\/2012\/writers\/tim_layden\/06\/26\/track-field-photo-finish-felix-tarmoh\/index.html\" title=\"Analyzing a photo finish\" target=\"_blank\">incredibly enlightening<\/a>. So enlightening, in fact, that I&#8217;m going to stop here today so you can go read it.<\/p>\n<p>Weight: 229 Loss: 11 lbs &#8211; Running Yearly Mileage: 187.5 miles (+4 miles)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mworland.com\/rps\/Vball2012\" title=\"Rocky Peak Volleyball 2012\" target=\"_blank\">Volleyball<\/a> Match Record: 3-0 (7-2 Game Record, +17 Point Differential)<br \/>\nFitocracy Level: 22 ID: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitocracy.com\/profile\/disciplev1\/\" title=\"Fitocracy DiscipleV1 Profile\" target=\"_blank\">disciplev1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, that&#8217;s not the title of my latest suspense novel (or Richard Castle&#8217;s for that matter, although I imagine it soon will be), but the technical term for a tie in the world of track and field. Why bring that up? Well, if you&#8217;ve been following the U.S. Olympic trials recently (c&#8217;mon, surely you have?), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3],"tags":[232,214,215,233],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onlytwopeople.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}