birmingham commonwealth games silver medallist long jumper murali sreeshankar rued missing out on a gold saying his fourth jump which was ruled a foul under laserbased new technology would have been legal in an earlier system and big enough to finish on top of the podiumsreeshankar and eventual gold winner laquan nairn of bahamas had identical best jumps of 808m nairn was adjudged gold winner as his second best of 798m was better than 784m of sreeshankarunder rules if two jumpers are tied on the same distance the one who has a better second best effort will be ranked aheadthe 23yearold sreeshankar said he initially thought he had a big valid jump in his fourth attempt which would have given him a gold however his jump was adjudged a foul under the new systemi was very surprised you cant call it fourth jump a foul because i never overstepped the foul board but she pitside official explained to me the exact jumping position movement of my foot which was crossing the perpendicular plate sreeshankar said in a virtual interactionif it was the previous system which we had in past years it would not have been called a foul said the national record holder 836mhe said the conditions during the cwg long jump final was not ideal as it was a bit cold and windyperformance on the particular day matters in major championships winning a medal is the priorityi completely messed up the first three jumps trying to have safe jumps by leaving a good gap my focus after that was to be on the podium with good jumps in the final three attemptssreeshankar first experienced the new system in march during the world indoor championships in belgrade where he had finished seventhearlier the foul board was inclined at 45 degree but from this year it was just a perpendicular plate in between the foul board and take off board so it is not ideal to have a perfect take off in the current scenarioif you hit the take off board with a centimetre or millimetre to spare and if the foot goes on in the takeoff angle it will automatically cross that perpendicular plate and will be called a foulathletes missing out on medals under new systemthe new system which also governs triple jump came into force on november 1 2021 after the world athletics council gave its approvalin the old manual system a nojump is called if an athlete is judged while taking off to have touched the ground beyond the takeoff line a plasticine board set at an angle of 45 degree has been long used to assist with such decisionsunder the new technical rule it will be a failure on takeoff if any part of the takeoff shoe or foot breaks the vertical plane of the takeoff line it was felt that this would be more understandable and simpler to judge world athletics had said in a release in september 2020the old rule occasionally allowed toecaps to