The Gold Medal Race In Olympic Cycling Produced The Closest Photo Finish Ever

Australia's Anna Meares won the gold medal in women's sprint cycling at the Velodrome today.

Sprint cycling consists of a best-of-three series of one-on-one races between two riders. Meares beat the UK's Victoria Pendleton 2-0 in the gold medal series. But in the first race, Pendleton actually won by just 0.001 seconds — the smallest possible margin that the sport allows, according to the AP. However, she was later disqualified for coming out of her sprint lane and the race was awarded to Meares. The Aussie won the next race easily to take gold.

This is the photo finish of that race (via Reddit). We can't tell at all who the winner is from this view (Meares is on the top):

But when we zoom it in, you can see Pendleton's wheel is more in the red than Meares':

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