[olliej]

I have issues with this video, not because of the idea of including inspection time - I think it should be included - but because if you have a fixed 15s window to look at something there is not necessarily any reason to rush to be faster than that. So the current WRs have inspection times that aren’t being raced.

What the video is doing is equivalent to going back to prior Olympic events and then including the time taken by participants to walk out to the starting positions and get into the starting position if appropriate. Then reordering the participants based on those new times. Similar for the other records, like typing I’m sure retiming including setup and sitting down time would impact positions as well.

So I do agree with the basic idea that the prep time here should be included, but I don’t think you can ever reorder existing record holders - they would have to remain in a second category, which is also interesting in its own right as a measurement of pure mechanics.