Wired: High-Tech Timing System Settles Phelps' Race for 7th Gold

To the disbelief of many, Michael Phelps' closing stroke edges out his competition -- by the length of a fingernail -- to win his seventh gold medal. That's because it's tech, not the naked eye, that's able to establish who won the race.
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