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Getting a great start is essential for a sprinter, but even the best in the world can get things wrong. Linford Christie, Jürgen Hingsen and Ato Bolden - they all made false starts in their career - not to forget about Rey Robinson and Eddie Hart, who missed the complete 100m race in Munich 1972.
The most unusual moments from Olympic history are investigated once again to reveal the stranger side of the five rings: bit.do/StMENG
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I would've actually fought my coach if they told me the wrong time for my race AT THE OLYMPICS
I missed my GCSE maths exam because I was given the wrong time on my exam timetable. That was bad enough.
Katie Martin On God
@@alaurahwillow155 oh god what'd you do?
Alaurah Willow i just did a gce exam yesterday and I did bad because no one told me we were examining in old syllabus rather than the new one
@@Koltary I'm guessing that was Biology, but how about English lit today or the rest went well at least?
imagine training your whole life just to get a false start
Imagine training your whole life just to miss your run
imagine missing the last free McDonalds giveaway, that happened to me once, if only i could have arrived 0.5 seconds earlier. it wasn't just one meal too.
First Pug oof
Just imagine.
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It doesn't seem like cheating to me man, it's like tension got to them
Fun fact: Olympic officials later confirmed they gave coach Stan Wright the wrong schedule... after Wright had already received all the blame in the press. So when the video claims that Wright was "working from the wrong schedule," the Olympics channel is conveniently leaving out *why* that was the case.
Ok …they were paid to do that by the Russians.
Well, at least the couple saw the run live on tv!
Imagine it wasn't a mistake at all
Aufully convenient
Why though? Why did they do that?
Finally
I devoted my life for this 9 second race
I’ve trained 7 days a week, spent millions of dollars on professional training, and became a representative of my country.
*false starts*
Alex Lee They spend millions on training?
Dank Maymays maybe not millions but alot of money
Ice J yea like over 10 grand at least
Sparsh Jain definitely more. 100k+ a year would be more accurate for a top level pro
Ice J good point
that last story is horrific and yet the wigs and the acting has me cackling..
@Hgyvtfygyhuh Ygihvutctvnininnin Timmy I told you to stop talking to the mirror.
@Hgyvtfygyhuh Ygihvutctvnininnin bruh are you like 10.
Fr3akyBeelie lmao nice
@@Fr3akyBeelie You got him good.
🤣🤣🤣
It feels so bad to miss a start or do a false start
Chris Kim. It hurts even to watch...
Ikr
Haven't had it happen yet, but can only imagine how terrible it would be at the Olympic level. 😭
It’s so nerve wracking though. Those seconds waiting for the gun feels like years 😂 it was bad enough at national races for me, but I couldn’t imagine how bad it would be during the Olympics 😳
I hate when it happens during distance races I run during track season. I'm so nervous already, but then I have to start the race over, even though it's someone else's fault.
One of the strangest moments in Olympic history is when they re-enacted the Rey Robinson and Eddie Hart mishap in this video.
Lol true
Completely unrelated to anything in the video - potatoes are amazing. Cheers!
@@ethicalphytophage Cheers, buddy!
@@estroncio64 😀😀😀
The wigs 😭😭😭
"forgotten for ever", "only managed silver"
these guys are still Olympic athletes, he "only managed silver" at the Olympics, that's not something you can belittle like that, c'mon
That’s what I’m saying. I’d be flexing if I sixth place in an Olympic race.
Getting selected to represent your nation in Olympics alone is an achievement
It's with this kind of mentality that you will never become 1st.
In India, Olympic Silver Medal winner received $200,000 to $500,000, from the government, besides other sponsors and sports contracts. Gold winner could get more than a million usd, there have been only one single gold medal winner in India in entire Olympic games
I think it has to be put into context. I would be ecstatic to even finish an Olympic marathon. But if Eliud Kipchoge got 2nd place then he would have "only managed silver".
As a swimmer, missing my race is something that I dread often. You never think about it actually happening because, it shouldn’t. It’s the last thing you’re worried about. You trust yourself and your coaches to keep you on track. I’ve missed a few races before and even at low level meets, the feeling is almost unbearable in the moment. During the last story I could feel what they were feeling when they saw their race, just like the feeling of looking up from your chair and seeing your heat swimming in the pool. It’s awful. For them it must of been more than I could ever imagine...
ye ik
The Real Splash Brothers *The fact that it was not their mistake but their coach's fault is what make it worst.*
I’m only 13 but at our swim meets usually they are able to put you in a heat with older kids or with faster kids.
Chloe Ake Me too. I’m 13 and in some competitions, I am put with swimmers 5 years older. To be honest, I never missed or have been disqualified in any of my events. And, I’m not really good at sprints. I’m a distance swimmer.
Bella Mendes same! Like I’ve never missed a race, but I’ve been disqualified once or twice and some of my friends have missed one or two races, and they are almost always able to swim it even if it’s with 18 year olds🤷♀️
You guys should make coach’s mistake compilation!
detective c @Kramer
that last story is horrific and yet the wigs and the acting has me cackling..
@@michaelsuh9211 typa copy and paste? Lol
Maybe it’s intentional instead of mistake, politics I’ll say
Where is that clip, where the speed skater skated in the wrong lane?
i honestly don’t think hingson’s last one was a false start
aud 0.25 speed you can see him move early
but actually no - he did not
Dimitar A the have special blocks with pressure sensors so they can tell if the pressure increases before the gun goes its a false start not just movement
@@brynmcdougald2418 thank you for explanation
yeah it wasnt
5:42 the good old days when yeezy 350s released in 1972
Julian ._. Lmao I didn’t even notice that
Lol
Lol
Lol
Bruh I didn't even notice until I seen your comment lol
You can’t really blame these athletes. Imagine training for YEARS, and all that training and dedication until the day of your performances, only to be nervous because everything that you’ve ever worked for and trained for, has come to this.
If he started early it was like miliseconds before every time I hear the sound before he moves. It looks like his reaction time is just way better than everyone else, although I'm not versed in the exact rules of it... maybe you have to wait until the sound ends?
Human reaction time has never been clocked to go below 100ms. So if the sprinter starts less than 100ms after the gun fires, he wasn't listening and guessed instead.
@@stevesamuel263 Doesn't make sense that he'd guess a start in a matter of milliseconds too early
@@oak6959 because there is usually the same time span between the on your marks, get set, go. so if you time it right you and go under 0.1 secs.
They started using blocks electronic sensors in them. I think the video is used to confirm in case of mechanical error
Drew M as kindled used to say, ‘you go on the B of the bang’
I'm actually the greatest Olympian in the world.....but I've missed every event.
jim jimjim yeah same
@@dylcana4122 I'll take a third.
I am a chess Player
😂 😂 😂
@@freedomofspeech2700 *ok.*
That coach was secretly on KGB's payroll.
@@diwakarns1600 bro he is talking about kgb which is secret agency in Russia not about the movie kgf
my thoughts exactly.... the distance they'll go for that 1 yt hope...
That's what I'm thinking. No way he had it wrong. That is shady af
Probably...
@@Swav.Zielin Wouldn't you have checked it several times reading it from different signs in different areas? Sitting around waiting at tournaments like these being bored as you can't go out drinking before your race and you can't over eat/indulge so you have to sit around a lot and all you'd have is your ticket/card/pass that says what race you are in and when it's on but they somehow just asked their coach to tell them when it's on and in no conversation with anyone else did they get informed that they had their time wrong???
jesus christ all of these are sad , especially the last one
aw it's nice of you to include the Christian Son of God in your comment. I'm sure He feels bad for all those people and their mistakes.
Yeah what is was that ridiculous acting
Imagine getting through a lot of pains and a lot of hardwork, just to be disqualified in less than a second
Imagine not being born whit talent and train 20 years of your life.
Just to discover you have not the talent for it.
António Paixão You don’t have to imagine :)
@@nordreds2084 thanks for reminding me 😃
No problem
They really need to add a visual effect or something that tells you when the gun's gonna go off, so that doesn't happen. Maybe like "3, 2, 1, BANG".
Imagine spending your whole life preparing, waking up at 4 AM for years, going to practice everyday,
And then your coach gives you the wrong f*cking schedule
Christie proved his reactions were quicker than the time used by the olympics for a false start. This was something he could repeat, so arguably not a false start, just a better start than they allowed.
Yeah, and you can see lab studies where non-olympic runners consistently start in under 100ms, it's a crazy rule.
I don’t even see half of these false starts. Like 1:38 and 3:59
because its so slight. Like if they do anything like lift there hands or push at all before the gun then its a false start
You can see it with 0.25 speed.
insert weird name. I still can’t tell
That's why you are not a judge.
Right I can’t see it either....he probably was cheated cause to me he didn’t move but I can say he move really little slightly in the legs if you know what I mean🤷🏾♂️
3:23 number 7 didnt start at all
Conspiracy? Perhaps some greased hands were thinning the competition for him eh? Or this is just a rumor and a coincidence. We shall never know.
Lmao
I hadn't noticed that. That's really weird
False starts don’t need movement to be called. If the pressure censor feels something before the gun goes off it’s a false start. It’s meant to be reaction time not your guessing powers
Strange
I was once placed 19th in a prelims swim meet which means I missed being an alternate by 1 place.( alternates have to go in case someone drops out) On the way home my coach calls to tell me that they failed to remove the disqualified swimmers from the finals roster and I actually made it as an alternate. Made it back and got changed just in time to see the race finish with 1 empty lane.
It's so stupid how you get eliminated for false starts especially if it's multiple people.
I would absolutely destroy my coaches face if he caused me to miss a race.
Football Soccer
the coach was actually given the wrong schedule by the Olympics.
Those wigs though!🤣
Reading about the controversy, it appears it was more the fault of the Olympics organisers than the coach. But of course a video uploaded by the official Olympics channel would blame the coach entirely...
Imagining training for 4 years just for your coach to tell you the wrong start time
Bs.... Some of those guys got punished for faster reflexes :/
Von Pascasio it’s the rules sorry to inform you.
It is not :w.
they work out the reaction time based on how fast the sound of the gun going off will reach the athletes(speaker behind each athlete nowadays) and how fast the sound can travel to the brain and for the brain to get the body to start the muscles moving. This is currently 100m/s
Not really, people have calculated the fastest ever possible reaction a human being could have to the gun, and it is 1/10 of a second. If your reaction time is under that, it means you started pushing on the blocks before you even heard the shot
I’m assuming you’ve never runbtrack?
The last story ouch I felt that one. That’s gotta be devastating
“Shedule”
No it's not. I don't hear that here. It's a British thing.
Me LLAMO Casho uh no mate
Me LLAMO Casho no dude, that’s a no. We don’t.
Maybe an English thing, in Scotland we say it properly
Definitely not a British thing! Dude's just saying it weirdly.
The first guy shouldn’t have been found guilty because on his third go he was right on time and just had a faster reaction time then everyone else. bruhhhhhh that is some bs none of those people deserved for their careers to be over
there's actually now rules that you have to start 0.1 seconds AFTER the gun, because they've determined that to be the limit of human reaction speed combined with distance from the sound, etc.
@@andrewf8366 Which is why several of the false starts occurred because the contestant was LOOKING at the starting gun, not listening to it.
This gains them (especially the guy in the leftmost lane) a significant advantage over those who respond to the sound.
It you see it in 0.25x speed you see that he started before everyone else
@@marvinkitfox3386 Humans respond faster to audio signals than to visual signals. So it wouldn't make any sense to look at the gun.
@@emielverbeeren8181 isnt it the other way around? E.g. you can see lightning first before hearing thunder
@5:35 - A long way from Oscar winning performances.
Guess that the last coach wasn’t Wright after all 😂
Nice 😂😂👏🏾
plss i was feelin all sad and heartbroken for these athletes and i see this comment 😭💀
Feel so bad for these runners. You work so hard just to miss an event or get a false start
Thought this was going to be entertaining but it was just depressing
Did you want your reenactment to look so comically silly?
I would fire my coach so hard if he screwed up my race times at the Olympics
Yeah but it's a done deal. Nothing will change that now
@Horseman Gabby
I’d actually have to fight him.
my coach would have been balling with kobe if that was the case
I think the saddest part is that it wasn't even the coach or any of the athlete's faults. Coach Stan Wright literally checked with the Olympic officials to make sure he had it correct, which they falsely confirmed; the schedule had been lately amended by the IAAF and some teams weren't properly notified (the winner of the 100 and 200 metre sprint Valeriy Borzov later admitted that he had nearly missed his quarter-final as well due to the same issue). Stan Wright saw footage of it starting from the Olympic Village and desperately made a dash for it in an ABC-TV car with the three sprinters, but unfortunately, it was too late for Hart and Robinson to compete, and an appeal by the USA team failed to reverse their elimination. Taylor, the third sprinter, arrived just seconds before his and managed to grab second overall despite being unprepared.
It's especially saddening since Wright's name got dragged through the mud for it even when the USA Olympic Committee cleared him of all blame (even to this day, as evidenced in this video) and his career "was never the same after that", as well as the fact that Hart and Robinson held the fastest Olympic times that year and likely would've taken the top spots if it hadn't been for the misunderstanding :(
At least the athletes still managed to be successful after that, with Hart securing the 4 x 100 m relay gold for USA at the same Olympics and later setting a world record for the Masters 100 m that would last 14 years, while Robinson went on to become the head track coach at Florida A&M University, coaching multiple Olympic medalist Walter Dix.
honest question: If Usain Bolt in his prime ever mistook the time for a race and wasn't at the start line do you think the meet officials would still start the race?
Thank you for the video
1:38 how's that a false start
He started way before every one else and i trust the professionals more than you.
he started 1/12 of a second earlier than everyone
legionaries Ok so in races, there’s a gun sound that signifies the start of the race and you’re not allowed to move until the gun sounds. If you move before the gun sounds, it is called a false start. Hope this helps.
he did a runneth before the gunneth
maoribrotha53 he moved after the sound tho u can literally hear the gun then he moves in 0.25 speed watch it
If a sprinter starts after the gun has been fired, how can it be considered as a false start? He reacted faster than others and it's a quality to be appreciated.
The worst disqualification was Linford's. The rules state that there should be no movement until after the gun. Linford did not move before the gun, in fact he only started to move 0.082 seconds after it had fired thanks to his amazing reactions. But a science study reviewed sprinters reaction times and that the minimum theoretical time for a reaction was 0.1 seconds. Linford was robbed because he just had very fast reactions!
He builds up each racer so much that I'm cheering for them, and then I remember what video I'm watching :(
The sport basically penalizes you if your reaction time is superior.
We need more of these strange moments
I fail to see Bolden's false start at 3:40. I watched it several times, even at half speed, and it looks to me that he did not jump the gun. Am I alone in thinking this?
Mike S, same. I can’t see it
@@joeyjerry1586 Thanks for the reply. I hoped it wasn't just me.
If i ever get to the olympics im just gonna stay in the stadium the whole time 💀💀
Stupid rule. That breaks my heart for the athletes.
which rule is stupid?
Not a stupid rule
I wonder how many months I've been skipping through recommended garbage while this awesome video was hiding in the RUclips shadows waiting for me to find it...
Super human reaction time means you false start... Yea ok...
TexasGTO look at the rules, you have to start .1 seconds after the gun
Funny how none of them have ever proven they have super human reaction time, outside of these false starts.
To be honest he didnt fslse stsrt he was perfectly on tim so they never ssw something like it so they thought it was a false start
@@avox5651 the human brain, and therefore the body, can only move 1 tenth of a second when it comes to reaction time. And there is tons of equipment there to find and stop a false start. So no, you're wrong
@@gokublack5620 Theoretically speaking the quickest reaction time is a reflex reaction, which can actually be as small as 0.08s.
At the 5:22 mark, strange how the reenactment of Robinson and Hart used two different TV's to show them watching the their live race happen. The first TV uses a toggle on/off switch whereas later a different TV uees a pull-out on/off switch.
Correction: It is the same TV. They just pretend to turn it on using two different switches. Not really sure why it has two diferent on/off switches. It looks like it may be a Mitsubishi TV.
One time at sports day i was doing 100m finals and i started to run and won the race but then i relised that it was a false start and i jist didnt hear the second shot
Oh man i did this last year
Try being the new kid at school and also the fastest and then pulling your ileum soas a quarter of the way through then coming last.
More than the gold medal, Mike Marsh is famous for nearly breaking the 200 meters World record in the series, finishing 2 hundreds of second behind the mark after cutting his effort way before the line.
These videos are amazing I wish there were more
5:18 SSHEDULE
The claim that Hart and Robinson ran 9.95 is false. Hundredths of a second were not recorded when hand timing was used. They ran a hand timed 9.9 in Eugene Oregon which roughly equated to 10.1 electronic timing. Since Borzov ran 10.14 in the final when easing up at the finish they were certainly not sure of a gold. Borzov showed his class by demolishing the best Americans in the 200m a few days later.
It happened this time also in Tokyo 2021
I just came back from an athletic competition, (4x400m and 1.5km) and false starts are so common amongst sprinters
it was real interesting to see people take off 2 mins before the pistol went off.
I like how everyone in the comments is suddenly an expert on false starts
THE REENACTING IS HILARIOUS
The 70s is always portrayed as such a psychedelic vibe 😆
That was so sad for Robinson & Hart 😭
2:06, and I thought gray sweatpants were bad 😂😂
1:20 but it looked like his foot didnt move or go over line before the shot. are they simply supposed to stay motionless until??
1:35 i think that 3rd start was spot on
4:00 looked like he was simply quickest on the reaction
All of them jumped start
You have to stay still until you hear the gun go off. It’s been shown the fastest human reaction time is .1 second, therefore, those people that are “spot on” jumped the gun because they physically couldn’t have reacted under a tenth of a second.
has to be completely motionless form the time "set" is said until the gun goes off. You turn your head DQ, move your hand DQ Move your foot DQ etc etc.
yes
no
perhaps but irrelevant
@@alison29 interesting n makes sense. They luckily timed it just in the nick of time lol
the reenactments with the wigs are crazy lmao
so if you fun as soon as you hear the gun thing it’s a false start
Imagine being that coach that followed the wrong schedule and let their athletes years of hard training go down the drain. I would want to disappear from the planet
“As long as he doesn’t-“ *false starts* “........oh”
Reminds me of this one time I missed a flight to Greece while I was waiting at the gate with my headphones on XD
gosh i cant even finish this video my heart is breaking for them
It happened with me too once in school exam. I prepared for history paper but in exam hall it turned out to be geography paper. It was gut wrenching for me.
I missed an exam thinking it was the day after than when it was, found out I missed it by friends when I saw them in the club getting pissed.
6:18 if this was meant to be in the 70s, why is he wearing yeezys? 😂
There are so many comments about Jurgen Hingsen's third false start in 1988 (1:36). On his third start his reaction time was measured at 0.099 seconds - the legal limit was/still is 0.100 seconds. So you are talking 0.001 seconds or one-thousandth of a second too early. Just to point out he didn't start before the gun was fired, he started after the gun fired but the smallest possible amount before the minimum accepted reaction time. Linford Christie did a similar thing in 1996 (3:51) but his reaction time on the second false start was 0.086 seconds so 0.014 seconds too early. Hope this helps someone understand why they were both disqualified.
6:22 The guy on the right is wearing yeezys😂
1:03 Jesus how does that not get in the way!?!
my brother slept through his track meet this morning 🤠
Last one is the saddest 🙁
At 1:37 and 3:51 .. Even at 0.25x playback speed, I still can't see how he is too early! Can anyone explain?
I’d destroy that guy who messed up my schedule
So two minor mistakes from a nervous, title-defending champion, means life expulsion from the Games?
The funny thing about this video is that the the last part of the video is filmed at the track training track that linford is coaching
@1:51 - Well, he might "return to the games" to watch! ;D
Christie's first false start was false. However, his second wasn't, it was just a *good* start, and the guy in lane 1 rose virtually at the same time. It was the same with Ato Bolton's start, that wasn't false, either. I've slowed down the footage and they both look fine. Christie was robbed of defending his title. Okay, you could say he should have been more careful, as he was an experienced athlete, but it was an unfair decision.
Here after 100 m finals
"He was 30 in 1988, in his prime" That's a weird thing to hear when you're talking about a sprinter
Linford Christie ? He was 28 then. But he won gold at 32 in Barcelona 1992.
just because you reacted much faster than anyone else doesn't mean you did it before shot
I recall Hingsen's failure. We were all frustrated that he did not play safe. Even with a snail start he would at least had a chance for some medals. Strange.
What kind of coach. If I were a coach of an Olympian I would check at least 10 times
well he probably did. Only he had the wrong schedule and it didn't have the right times. Soi checking 100 times wouldn't have changed
Tokyo 2020: Hold my false starts.
(De Grasse had to be in those races)
THIS GIVES ME ANXIETY
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God I feel like that manager absolutely had the right schedule but just misread the 24hr times... 16:00 will absolutely look like 6 o'clock to someone unfamiliar
LOVE THE OLYMPICS
me too
@@bentattersfield7987 i was like 13 when i made this comment lmaoooo thats crazy
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“You started a half second earlier”
“Begone”
It’s funny how in the last story, one of the men were wearing yeezy’s! I don’t think they were made that early.?!
It was a reenactment
Starry Yes I understand but to make it more realistic, they shouldn’t have used Yeezys to reenact an event that occurred years ago.
I can agree with that
I pause the video twice and it was worth it 🤤🤤
3:42 did the guy in lane 7 intentionally stay in his spot?
The gone didnt go of so obviously.
That final one is ridiculous that’s not their fault that’s their coach’s fault so they should’ve been at least given cash or something to compensate
I think the saddest part is that it actually wasn't even the coach or any of the athlete's faults, it was the Olympic Committee and IAAF. Coach Stan Wright literally checked with the Olympic officials to make sure he had it correct, which they falsely confirmed; the schedule had been lately amended by the IAAF and some teams weren't properly notified (the winner of the 100 and 200 metre sprint Valeriy Borzov later admitted that he had nearly missed his quarter-final as well due to the same issue). Stan Wright saw footage of it starting from the Olympic Village and desperately made a dash for it in an ABC-TV car with the three sprinters, but unfortunately, it was too late for Hart and Robinson to compete, and an appeal by the USA team failed to reverse their elimination. Taylor, the third sprinter, arrived just seconds before his and managed to grab second overall despite being unprepared.
It's especially saddening since Wright's name got dragged through the mud for it even when the USA Olympic Committee cleared him of all blame (even to this day, as evidenced here) and his career "was never the same after that", as well as the fact that Hart and Robinson held the fastest Olympic times that year and likely would've taken the top spots if it hadn't been for the misunderstanding :(
At least the athletes still managed to be successful after that, with Hart securing the 4 x 100 m relay gold for USA at the same Olympics and later setting a world record for the Masters 100 m that would last 14 years, while Robinson went on to become the head track coach at Florida A&M University, coaching multiple Olympic medalist Walter Dix.
he just had super fast interlectual reflexes thats all but somehow noone alllow that :(😢
That coach better have been on an airplane heading for an unknown destination, and planting potatoes for a living in a small village in Europe.
He is not the first nor the last person to mistake 16:00 for 6pm.
To be honest, if I was an athlete in the Olympics I would probably know my own scedule...
If u watch it on slow mo, u can see he didn’t start early, he went right on the beat