Do you mean *2* years ago? If so, I recall so too -- or at least that I was very pleasantly surprised by the greatly increased use of metric in NBC's coverage of the 2002 Winter Games at SLC. As I recall, ski jump distances were given in metric primarily, with (occasional?) conversions. That struck me as a definite change from past practice of 'hiding' metric altogether. Likewise for bobsled/luge speeds -- they at least didn't try to hide the display of km/h in the shared video feeds. Anyone else recall other examples?
Hardly ideal, of course, but definitely an improvement over previous coverage.. Might want to take an encouraging tone in those letters -- encouraging NBC to continue this trend into the Summer Games! -bh On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Brian J White wrote: > IIRC...all Olympic coverage was Metric last year? > > Am I wrong? > > At 09:17 2004-02-24, Harry Wyeth wrote: > >I second the idea to have readers contact NBC regarding the Olympics. We > >seem to go through this every four years, and it is so > >frustrating. Particularly in (track and) field events, it has been common > >to have the USA commentator telling us how so-and-so pole vaulted, or long > >jumped, or whatever, xx feet and yy inches, when the electronic scoreboard > >on the field shown in the background clearly shows meters. I don't know > >how to get through to the broadcasters; I have been sending them letters > >for years now to no avail. > > > >HARRY WYETH
