Winning In One One-Hundredth Of A Second

Olympic events keep coming down to one one-hundredth of a second. One one-hundredth of a second?
 

That’s faster than you can blink. That’s faster than you can read the word “fast.” And that’s faster than it takes Google to find the answer to how fast one one-hundredth of a second really is.
 

But for these Olympic athletes, that’s all the time they needed to bring home the glory:

Michael Phelps
 

The superman with the super body looked like he had lost it. But thanks to technology, we know that Phelps touched the wall in the 100-meter butterfly at 50.58 seconds. Serbian Milorad Cavic, ahead to the very end, touched in at 50.59 seconds.

Dara Torres
 

By now we all know that Dara Torres is 41 years old and that’s like really old for an Olympic swimmer. But more impressive than her age was her performance. In the 50-meter freestyle, the mom with the moves came in second just one one-hundredth of a second behind Germany’s Britta Steffen.
 

Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell
 

These twins from New Zealand had to wait for what felt like an eternity (30 seconds) to find out the results of their double sculls race. But when the rowing sisters' name flashed on the screen, it was the Germans who died a little inside after losing by just one one-hundredth of a second.

It takes me a full two seconds to say: Holy ****!