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Athletics False Start, Visualised (diagram)

See why reacting to the gun sooner than the reaction-time threshold is ruled a false start.

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Athletics false startA timeline from the starting gun with the 0.10-second reaction threshold, illustrating that reacting sooner than the threshold is ruled a false start.Gun (0 s)0.10 s thresholdOn your marks / set

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