Vox's Unexplainable Presents: Jumping the Gun
Sprinter TyNia Gaither was disqualified for a false start... after the gun went off... for running faster than humanly possible. Was that even true? Do sporting officials really understand how the body works? Or do we simply not understand how to define — and record — a race? (This episode originally aired September…
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