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Re:Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes by bjornorn on Thursday April 29, 2021 @06:52AM (#26979546)
Assuming Pidcock was in front on the actual finish line, his hub would have been about 5cm in front of the photo-finish line. That leaves about 3ms for him to finish the bike throw and return his hub behind Wouts hub. Seems like a stretch, but still a possibility :-)

Maybe you could also look at how deformed the wheel perimeter compared to a perfect ellipse to estimate the speed at different points?

EDIT: Or you could calculate whether it's humanly possible to move a bike a few centimeters forwards and back again in about 15ms, which I think the hypothetical bike throw must have been for Pidcock to be the actual winner?

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Re:Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes by tomglynch on Thursday April 29, 2021 @07:11AM (#26979665)
The wheel perimeter idea I did suggest (cmd + f for the '40%' bit down the bottom of the article) but I think the tolerances are likely too small to do it properly. Would love someone to give it a go though.
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