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unusual facts about False start


Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

* False start, but she was not disqualified due to technical error.



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1993 Grand National

At the second attempt, the tape became tangled again — around the neck of jockey Richard Dunwoody — and Brown called another false start.

Athletics at the 2010 Commonwealth Games – Women's 100 metres

England's Laura Turner and Australia's Sally Pearson had a simultaneous false start, but only Turner was initially disqualified, "on the grounds that her reaction time was the quicker".

Azúcar Moreno

Two minutes of absolute silence ensued with much confusion both on and off stage, with the musicians staring blankly into the TV cameras, then a sudden false start of the backing track, then embarrassed applauds from the audience and legendary BBC commentator Terry Wogan dryly saying "Let's hope it doesn't go on like this or we're in for a very long night, ladies and gentlemen".

Larry Gagosian

Bidding on behalf of Newhouse in 1988, Gagosian paid over $17 million for False Start (1959) by Jasper Johns, a then-record price for a work by a living artist.

Royal Athlete

The horse had been among the favourites for the 1993 Grand National but fell in the race, which was later declared void due to an unrecalled false start.

The Capitol Albums, Volume 2

Instead, the CDs were mastered from mixes prepared by Capitol A&R executive Dave Dexter, Jr., who, in 1965 took the submaster tapes from Capitol Records' vaults and added reverb to several tracks and simulated stereo on mono tracks (the proof that these are Dexter's mixes being the false start on "I'm Looking Through You").

Welcome to the Gun Show

Some bands featured on the show, such as False Start have since gone on to release albums, and several bands have played at Auckland's Big Day Out festival.