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Actually, there may be something in that "slightly" passes. Envision two track stars - one "passes" the other, but they still overlap. This is not an out. The passing player must COMPLETELY pass the passed player for this to be an out.
One extreme example was brought up a couple of months back of the runners hugging each other and spinning... at no point was the entire body of the succeeding runner ahead of the entire body of the preceding runner... thus no out.
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