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| Thema: Re:Wie trainieren US-Leichtathleten? | Antwort auf: Wie trainieren US-Leichtathleten? von Arne | |
Haben wohl in den 70ern angefangen auf Metrisch umstellen. Einige Ligen und/oder Bundestaaten erst weit nach 2000. Metric system in high school track and field was a move that was not well thought out in 1978: "The result was the late 1970s metric push, which he hoped would catch on with the American public. Major league ballparks painted distances to the fences in metric numbers and prior to the 1979 season, the U.S. High School Federation adopted the metric system for track and field. That meant high schools had to spend money to change their track configurations from yards to meters. The U.S. Federation gave schools a two-year grace period to alter their tracks. But the American public just never bought the metric system. It didn’t then and it hasn’t now." [https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/bruce-buratti/2012/03/metric_system_in_high_school_t.html] "- The switch to metric would add the ability for a higher degree of accuracy in measurement. As mentioned in Florida, "Going to metric allows us to use factors of ten anywhere on the measuring tape. We often find our champions using a Laser- drawn line on a high speed camera image in our running events. It's extremely difficult to accurately gauge the ¼" to ½""" [https://www.milesplit.com/articles/199701/should-high-school-sports-switch-to-the-metric-system] Hard Lessons At the Olympics, Like The Metric System: "U.S. judo competitor Kyle Vashkulat competes at 100 kg, which he knows means he weighs 220 lbs. But does he know height? "We were in a sauna, and the guy's telling us the height of the boxers, and he's like, 'Yeah, this guy's like, 1.7 meters' — and we're like, 'How tall is that?'" Vashkulat says, laughing. Nick Delpopolo, a judoka who wrestles at 73 kg — which, of course, is 161 lbs — also has distance deficiencies. Like if someone says something is 10 km away. "Uhhh, that's about a little over 3 miles, I know that," Delpopolo says." [https://www.npr.org/2012/08/12/158658876/hard-lessons-at-the-olympics-like-the-metric-system] |
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