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Message: [QUOTE="ShmiCO, post: 4353060, member: 9524"] The only reason the reaction time matters is the technology being used to spot whether an athlete starts before the gun. The optics of punishing athletes with great reaction times are pretty terrible, and the frequent "ref reviews" explaining the complicated timing aren't fun. IMO the most ideal solution is to tweak the technology so it's never the star of the show. False starts are never missed, and official reviews happen very rarely. In this case it matters less what's humanly possible than what's technologically possible. If they can reliably detect false starts with a value of 0.05, great. Maybe we'll never see this issue again! :D [/QUOTE]