The difference between the gold medal and no metal at all in the Olympic games is often a matter of a split second.
It's clear what has happened: he's a striker in a dangerous position towards the end of a game and, in a split second, the ball has missed everybody, bounced to him and instinct has kicked in.
"One of the things the public has to understand, an individual wielding a knife at you at about 20 feet can be on top of you in a split second, " he said.
Ref Jones - on the say-so of his touch judge - ruled that Chris O'Young had put his foot out of play a split-second before Thom Evans squeezed in.
Thanks to technology, sports fans have the luxury of second and third guessing umpires who have a split second to make a call.
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However, replays showed that the France scrum-half had recovered his hold of the ball a split-second before winger Thom, and referee George Clancy awarded a 5m scrum.
These instinctive actions tend to matter more because they are actually a composite of numerous split-second decisions that impact relationships and future options.
Jeter was a split second slow out of the blocks and nearly caught Fraser-Pryce in the final meters, but the Jamaican leaned across the finish for the victory.
Body language was the basis for our earliest form of communication when the split-second ability to recognize if a person or situation was benign or dangerous was often a matter of life or death.
That makes it possible not just to skip to any point of a taped show in a split-second, but also to rewind live television: because hard disks are so fast, they can tape and play back at the same time.
But the referee had blown the final whistle a split second before and it was Livi who were able to breathe a sigh of relief after winning their first-ever European tie.
He's more interested in the bits and pieces of music, even when they span only a split second.
"I couldn't have noticed the car any earlier - it appeared all of a sudden and I only saw it for a split second, " he said.
As the government set about creating a brave new world of motorways, Kinneir and Calvert were given the job of making signs that could be clearly read in a split second.
The Ospreys seized the initiative at the start of the second half with a Wallace offside allowing Biggar to split the posts again, and Munster had to scramble back to deny Andrew Bishop a try after a Mike Phillips break.
Yet unmarried couples can split children on their tax returns, giving them the greater value of a first and second child credit for their fourth or fifth child.
It had not piloted the A2 section - the second year of study - before the A-level was split into two parts in 2000.
This machine is a collision sensor, which knew in a split second to activate your automobile air bag and cushion the impact of your collision with the inside of the car.
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"You hear it for a split second, and tune it out, unless it's one of those songs you really like, " said Brooks, 23.
When the Heat and Pacers split the first four games of their second-round series last year, Miami rolled to a 115-83 home win in Game 5 and captured the series in six games.
Year upon year of slowing down the action in their heads, of training their brains to take the emotion out of the multiple thousands of split-second decisions they make every time they get in the car, tends to lend them a languid air when not in action.
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