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Pablo Torre Finds Out

Vox's Unexplainable Presents: Jumping the Gun

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre

News, Government, Sports, Sports News

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Sprinter TyNia Gaither was disqualified for a false start... after the gun went off... for running faster than humanly possible. Was that even true? Do sporting officials really understand how the body works? Or do we simply not understand how to define — and record — a race?

(This episode originally aired September 21, 2022.)

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Either way, it's Pablo.

0:29.5

Listen, it's been a hell of a two weeks here at Pablo Torre finds out.

0:40.1

My brain is a little broken by that, as the intro to this might suggest.

0:45.4

And we'll get to all of the stuff that has been developing in these last several days with the

0:50.3

NFLPA and more in coming episodes, in coming weeks.

0:55.0

But today, we wanted to bring you something different and also give our overworked

1:00.4

and underrated staff some time off.

1:03.8

And what we have for you today is an episode from one of our kindred spirits over at Vox. This is an episode of a show called

1:13.2

Unexplainable, in which they use science multiple times a week, to tell a story, to explain something.

1:21.5

And this episode just happens to be a sports episode. It happens to be about an object I've long been fascinated by.

1:30.9

And that object happens to be a gun.

1:38.8

There's confident, and then there's Tinea Gaither.

1:41.8

When I was younger, I used to beat up on the boys in P.E.

2:04.3

And ever since then, like, I've been addicted to what I do. What she does is sprint for Team Bahamas at the highest level. I love the adrenaline rush that I get every time I line up. I love making my family and my country proud. I wouldn't choose any other career for myself right now. Back in July, Tynea was gearing up for a huge race in Oregon.

2:09.1

This was the world championships, which is the biggest championship that we have as professional sprinters for the year.

2:10.4

Tainia had been training for months, day after day, to get ready for this championship.

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