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At the Paris Olympics in August, American Noah Lyles won the men’s 100-meters by five-thousandths of a second. It took meet officials 30 seconds to determine the winner. In the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, it took 30 minutes to declare American Eddie Tolan the winner, also by five-thousandths of a second in the first Olympic photo finish. To learn more about this story and other Olympic history, check out my recent post at LA32 Games:

The First Olympic Photo Finish
Feb 19
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