Controversy punctuated Day 3 of the 2022 track and field world championships.
And future Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Devon Allen was at the center of it.
Allen, who has the fastest time in the world in the 110-meter hurdles this year, was disqualified from Sunday night's final for a false start – leaping out of the blocks too quickly by only one-thousandth of a second.
It was the tightest of calls, a difference so small that it is completely undetectable to the human eye. And it upended what could have been a dream night for Allen, who was not only running on home soil but at Hayward Field – the very town and stadium where he competed collegiately at the University of Oregon.