TdF 2017 stage 7: Troyes > Nuits-Saint-Georges 213,5 km

[kingjr]

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Minali v. Moncassin 1997 was similar

Weening vs Klöden too

I prefer to not remember that one.

Demare apparently had a bad night, as he slept in a hotel without air conditioning, if I heard it right

 

[perico]

According to Paul Sherwin, a tie goes to the rider with momentum.

 

[Googolplex]

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Uh..

Looks like Kittels ahead to me, the red line is cutting off some of his front tire

I think I agree with you.
If you look at the image - https://image.ibb.co/g93yZa/photofinish.jpg - and zoom in as much as you can, it looks like the red line slightly overlaps with Kittel's wheel, but not EBH's.

Yep, and judging from the thickness of the front line, compared with the one showing Matthew's third place. It looks as though there are actually two lines at the front overlapping slightly - so they probably can see it pretty clearly when putting each of those lines on one by one.

Yeah, finish line camera takes several slices instead of one image (even though when puting slices next to each other it looks like one image). So they can look it slice by slice and see whose wheel is in earlier slice.

 

[Irondan]

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Zoomed in shot: http://i.imgur.com/BpBgeON.png
Obvious

That's obvious?

 

[Akuryo]

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Feel bad for Eddy, monster lead-out and well executed sprint. Kittel just too strong though, I think they could have shared it, but perhaps they never do that? Anyway, DD working well and will have motivation and confidence to work hard for EBH now, might still get a win which would be awsome

They also never shared the red number and last year Tony Martin and Alaphilippe both got it. Or Flecha and Hoogerland in 2011.

 

[markene2]

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Zoomed in shot: http://i.imgur.com/BpBgeON.png
Obvious

I see it now, thanks!

 

[Netserk]

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Zoomed in shot: http://i.imgur.com/BpBgeON.png
Obvious

Yep, a narrow win for Kittel, but it was his.

 

[DFA123]

At least EBH has won Tour stages in the past; otherwise this one would eat away at him for a long time - all those tiny, tiny things he could have done differently to make up those crucial 5mm.

 

[GuyIncognito]

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Zoomed in shot: http://i.imgur.com/BpBgeON.png
Obvious

That's obvious?

Yes, it's obvious that it's a zoomed in shot

 

[Ruby United]

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Uh..

Looks like Kittels ahead to me, the red line is cutting off some of his front tire

I think I agree with you.
If you look at the image - https://image.ibb.co/g93yZa/photofinish.jpg - and zoom in as much as you can, it looks like the red line slightly overlaps with Kittel's wheel, but not EBH's.

Yep, and judging from the thickness of the front line, compared with the one showing Matthew's third place. It looks as though there are actually two lines at the front overlapping slightly - so they probably can see it pretty clearly when putting each of those lines on one by one.

Yeah, finish line camera takes several slices instead of one image (even though when puting slices next to each other it looks like one image). So they can look it slice by slice and see whose wheel is in earlier slice.

That actually makes a lot of sense.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

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Zoomed in shot: http://i.imgur.com/BpBgeON.png
Obvious

As obvious as mud

 

[sir fly]

I'm sure they'll publish THE one of the 10000 frames per second, that decided today's winner.

 

[red_flanders]

I'm glad something interesting happened.

 

[Irondan]

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Zoomed in shot: http://i.imgur.com/BpBgeON.png
Obvious

That's obvious?

Yes, it's obvious that it's a zoomed in shot

I see it now that I've looked much closer at it, thanks!

 

[Ruby United]

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Zoomed in shot: http://i.imgur.com/BpBgeON.png
Obvious

That's obvious?

Yes, it's obvious that it's a zoomed in shot

I see it now that I've looked much closer at it, thanks!

:lol:

 

[Broth3r]

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Zoomed in shot: http://i.imgur.com/BpBgeON.png
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More of Kittel's wheel clips the line, but is that not because of the camera angle and EBH being farther away?

 

[Carols]

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Zoomed in shot: http://i.imgur.com/BpBgeON.png
Obvious

It looks like an obvious dead heat to me!

 

[Irondan]

Officially Kittel won by 0.0003 seconds, or 5mm.

That's a close race!

 

[Carols]

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Officially Kittel won by 0.0003 seconds, or 5mm.

That's a close race!

Okay so they have something beside the picture to base it on; precision timing. In horse racing it would have been called a dead heat.

 

[RedheadDane]

One thing's for certain; all the people who said Kittel would win convincingly got it wrong.

 

[DFA123]

So did they know the result instantly, which is why the camera followed Kittel? Very impressive if so. And then I guess they just double checked before confirming.

 

[kingjr]

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Officially Kittel won by 0.0003 seconds, or 5mm.

That's a close race!

That's closer than the Weening Klöden sprint (8mm iirc)

 

[Irondan]

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So did they know the result instantly, which is why the camera followed Kittel? Very impressive if so. And then I guess they just double checked before confirming.

Not sure, but I would assume we'll find out all the answers in the next couple hours.

 

[Melo]

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Officially Kittel won by 0.0003 seconds, or 5mm.

That's a close race!

BH right now.

 

[Norbea]

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Officially Kittel won by 0.0003 seconds, or 5mm.

That's a close race!

According to McEwan this was down to 1 pixel in the photo. Any closer and it would´ve been impossible to tell. 3 tens of a thousand second! That´s ridiculous. They should´ve just called it a dead heat. Don´t see any point in measuring ten thousands of seconds unless it is on the tracks.