I was typing the same thing, but was afraid it would come across sarcastic. Mind blown for sure.

Seriously, this just blew my mind.

Thank you for this, Burke! This crossed my mind yesterday at the Gold medal tie (I hadn’t seen the men’s butterfly tie until you posted this) and thought it was really strange they weren’t using a more precise system. I find it pretty amazing that they’ve taken into account the affect tolerances in construction and…

This actually a really nice article. Congrats

Holy shit - this is just a straight forward informative post explaining the answer to an interesting question. Well done.