The oldest Australian male swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal barely got wet in the process.
What lasts 20 or so seconds? It’s the time train doors stay open at a station on most rail systems. The recommended time to take to wash your hands in the COVID-19 days. The time it takes to sing Happy Birthday if you sing it twice.
That’s slightly longer than it took Usain Bolt to run 200 metres, but at least he did variations. It’s the time you have to put up a shot in basketball, with four seconds to spare. Maybe the time it takes to make a golden duck in cricket, in which case, like McEvoy, you might spend the next couple of days training and twiddling your fingers and waiting for your next crack.
You can open a vacuum sealed pack in 20 seconds, but only if you’re very good. It might have taken you 20 seconds to read this paragraph; it’s a bit contorted. There are other activities that sometimes last 20 or fewer seconds, but ideally should not. If you still don’t get what I’m on about, ask the French.
For all anyone knows, a 50-metre race is already won and lost by the split seconds between the swimmers as they leave the blocks, micro-margins that cannot be made up in a mini-race. If you look at the analysis the way aficionados do, you’ll see that’s how it was on Friday night.
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