Pigeon fanciers use it to log racing times in specially designed clocks.
Since the 1950s, world records have been kept only for distances measured in meters, and training methods and rules have evolved to such an extent that racing times have been significantly lowered.
It took six months before he could make it through the workouts at the required speed, and a year before the training began to result in improved racing times.
John Austin Mann Jr., who was born in Brooklyn, worked for The New York Herald Tribune, The Washington Daily News, The Washington Star, The Baltimore Evening Sun, The Racing Times and The Washington Times, among others.
Earlier this year, Nascar, the stock-car racing league, backed off an attempt to make reporters agree that Nascar was sole owner of "images, sounds and data arising from and during any Nascar event" -- including the racing times and scoring information.
A further advantage of the chip system is the automatic identification of all runners with their racing times, replacing the old system of wearing bar codes on a tear-away tag--along with the queues runners had to go through at the end of the race to hand in the bar code.
