photofinish

Next door in Georgia, gubernatorial hopeful Stacey Abrams is in a photofinish with Republican Brian Kemp, despite Kemp’s alleged voter-suppression efforts.

Here, the outcome depended on the final 180-degree turn just 150m from the line; with an assurance that would have done credit to his fellow Breton Bernard Hinault, Barguil tracked Contador when he headed for the corner, then took the widest line possible, carrying more momentum out of the turn and making sure there was no need for the photofinish.

“My kids were a photofinish with the end of my fertility,” I wrote in the book I was working on at the time.

After a final that played out slower than the semis preceding it, despite only a meagre headwind, it took several minutes of poring over a photofinish to determine who would take the rest of the spoils – Martial Mbandjock of France was eventually given bronze.

For the first time in the history of TV's Nielsen ratings, the three major networks last week ended up in as close a thing to a photofinish as statistics are likely to produce: a dead heat between CBS and NBC, each scoring an identical 19.4%* and, only a whisker behind long-lagging ABC with 19.3%.