Here is a link to a frame-by-frame set of the Phelps out-touching Cavic at Sports Illustrated. Note that Cavic lifts his head high like before reaching the wall thus retracting his shoulders and hands in the opposite direction while Phelps lunges. I would like to say that I realized all this when watching it last night but Clay was coaching Santa Monica this morning and pointed it out; The video and these photographs concur. [Link]
Saturday, August 16, 2008
A sloppy finish turns gold into silver and silver into gold for Michael Phelps!
Here is a link to a frame-by-frame set of the Phelps out-touching Cavic at Sports Illustrated. Note that Cavic lifts his head high like before reaching the wall thus retracting his shoulders and hands in the opposite direction while Phelps lunges. I would like to say that I realized all this when watching it last night but Clay was coaching Santa Monica this morning and pointed it out; The video and these photographs concur. [Link]
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The one thing I have noticed in this picture and others is that Mr. Phelps didn't touch the wall with two hands simultaneously. This in effect not only accelerated his time, but should in theory have been a DQ.
Maybe that was the protest that Cavic's coach entered.
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