What if, between each of those big numbers, there were scores of smaller numbers? And what if, between the smaller numbers, there were hundreds more numbers? That's what clocks look like what time looks like to a lot of Olympic athletes, whose success or failure is defined by cruelly tiny increments.
Speed, of course, is part of competing. But minutes contain an infinite number of fractions a human brain can struggle to comprehend.
Those hundredths of a second are truly microscopic, but they created a huge difference in the experience of the two men: Tebogo won his country's first Olympic gold medal ever. Bednarek mulled what he could have done better.
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