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Good calls of 2011

The official who declared Usain Bolt had false started in the final of the 100 meters at the World Track and Field Championships. It would have been easy to manufacture a scenario that could not be disproved and would have allowed the world's leading track athlete another chance (gun malfunction, timing malfunction, flinch by eventual winner Yohan Blake.)

The official who declared Usain Bolt had false started in the final of the 100 meters at the World Track and Field Championships. It would have been easy to manufacture a scenario that could not be disproved and would have allowed the world’s leading track athlete another chance (gun malfunction, timing malfunction, flinch by eventual winner Yohan Blake.)  (OLIVIER MORIN, AFP/Getty Images)

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Contributing: Brad Biggs, Mark Gonzales, Teddy Greenstein, Brian Hamilton, David Haugh, Philip Hersh, K.C. Johnson, Chris Kuc, Vaughn McClure, Fred Mitchell, Dan Pompei, Phil Rogers, Steve Rosenbloom, Shannon Ryan, Paul Skrbina, Paul Sullivan, Dave van Dyck

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