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Mike Conley spent most of the 1980s ranked among the top triple jumpers in the world.
A pair of baggy shorts , the likes of which he had never worn in a track meet before, cost him precious centimeters and he finished fourth , one spot out of the Olympics .
Conley 's story serves as one of hundreds of examples of how the most minute details can change the result of a single race or contest.
Two of the biggest races of 100-meter sprinter Justin Gatlin’s life were decided by one one-hundredth of a second .
The blink of an eye takes an average of1 seconds .
American long jumper Tara Davis-Woodhall : "I'm a goal-oriented person, which is cool, but at the same time, it's almost kind of degrading for us. Where it's, like, what could I have done to get that one centimeter ?".
Gatlin finished first or second in seven 100-meter races at worlds and Olympics between 2004 and 2019 .
The cumulative margin between first and second in all those races: one-tenth of one second.
Gatlin : "People will congratulate you for getting silver, but they love the people who win".
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