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Nachricht	> >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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