Phelps 100 Fly Finish - A Picture Says a Thousand...

Consecutive hundredth of a second image frames recorded by the OMEGA high-speed video cameras above the swimming pool during the finals of the 100-metre butterfly at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Gold medallist Michael Phelps is in the sequence on the left. Silver medallist Milorad Cavic, in the sequence on the right, touched the wall a one-hundredth of a second behind Phelps, the closest measurable finish in competitive swimming. OMEGA’s electronic timing system had identified the time at which Phelps had exerted the necessary 3 kilograms on the touch pad to stop the chronograph as 50.58 seconds. (Omega)