There's some evidence that runners are not starting as fast as they possibly could because they just don't want to risk false starting. Now, cabelly wants to take the fastest alete athletes and bring them into the lab. He wants to make sure researchers can control for all those variables with the censors.
At the 2022 World Athletics Championships, sprinter TyNia Gaither was disqualified for false starting ... after the gun went off. Officials said she started faster than humanly possible. How can that be?
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