Even then, she only went over by a hundredth of a second, powering across the line.
For the athletes, one-hundredth of a second can mean the difference between silver and gold, between obscurity and million-dollar contracts.
Saunders qualified eighth-fastest, by the margin of one hundredth of a second.
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Australian schoolboy Ian Thorpe came within one one-hundredth of a second of setting a new world record in the men's 200m freestyle.
Cuban 110m hurdler Dayron Robles beat American rival David Oliver by one-hundredth of a second for his third Golden League win of the season.
Sergio Gadea finished third, one-hundredth of a second ahead of Simon.
After a fourth place at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Dobriskey was only a hundredth of a second away from gold at the Worlds last summer.
Four years later she went into the Olympic final on the back of a 16-final winning streak but finished fourth, missing a medal by one hundredth of a second.
After missing out on bronze by one-hundredth of a second at the 2012 Olympics, Gay's goal for this summer is a medal at the world championships in Moscow in August.
That transaction itself happens to be fairly heavyweight, because it makes an extensive query of the database, and that might take one second, whereas normal transactions take one hundredth of a second.
Though winner Carmelita Jeter (10.92) and runner-up Tianna Madison (10.91) secured Olympic berths, it appeared that Jeneba Tarmoh had edged three-time Olympic medalist Allyson Felix by a hundredth of a second for the third and final spot.
On Monday, Cisco announced the development of the Nexus 7000, a network switch that's capable of routing 15 terabits of data per second--the equivalent of moving the entire contents of Wikipedia in a hundredth of a second, or downloading every movie available on Netflix (nasdaq: NFLX - news - people ) in about 40 seconds.
They are gathered up and injected into the quantum experiment at speeds of around five meters per second - just a hundredth the speed of the molecules flying around in the air.
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