The photo-finish added some spice to what was otherwise one of the most lackluster days in years.
He was promptly passed by other riders but looked to have come third, only to be ejected from the winners' enclosure after losing a photo-finish decision.
At the 2011 IPC World Championships in New Zealand, Pistorius suffered his first defeat over 100m since 2004 when he was beaten in a thrilling photo-finish by American Jerome Singleton.
Britain's big rivals Australia also qualified in a thrilling race in the other semi, getting the nod in a photo-finish with Italy in a time half a second faster than the cruising Brits.
Russia's Eugeni Dementiev threw himself across the line to take silver in a photo-finish with Mikhail Botwinov of Austria, whose bronze came four years after he was embroiled in a doping controversy at the Salt Lake City Games.
In "Eternal Sunshine, " Mr. Kaufman rides his hobby horses -- whimsical surrealism, acrobatic or elastic time, science or psychology reshaped by blithe fantasy -- to a photo finish in which almost everything is worked out elegantly.
It has given its fans countless thrills, ever since Lee Petty (daddy of Richard) sped to the checkered flag in his Olds simultaneously with Johnny Beauchamp's T-Bird in a photo finish that required three days to sort out.
It was pleasant, certainly, with an old-fashioned mahogany finish, zinc-topped low tables, and some prints of photo finishes from fabled race meetings at Ballybrit.
Rewards can also be given in apps beyond just games when people, say, share a photo, or finish a task on a to-do list.
What Clinton and his confreres have left unsettled is just how they intend to fight this war to the finish--and that, more than any photo-op cheeriness, will determine what kind of alliance 21st century NATO will turn out to be.
Experts differ on whether the election will be a landslide or photo finish, but most agree Karzai has the advantage over Abdullah, a 48-year-old doctor who served as Karzai's foreign minister until 2006.
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