[USMA:30923] Olympics, California, and SI

[Harry Wyeth]

As US Olympic watchers are aware, NBC's treatment of track and field events has been horrible, metrically-speaking.  Not only have the results of field events been reported exclusively in FFU/IFP (DAUs!), but the primary running commentator, Marty Liquori, always seems to report the progress of runners in terms of miles and yards. Six hours from now, when the men's marathon is run, I can almost guarantee a repeat of the same stuff.   As someone posted here, they did the same four years ago, and we complained, and nothing happened. And the same thing happens in the Winter Olympics.  And nothing happens when we complain to the AP about their news articles, or to almost anyone else, for that matter.   And now our "Governator" will cave in with California abandoning SI in road construction.   I have believed for years that, with some exceptions like soft drink bottles, the US will never really, really, convert to SI unless the federal government forces the issue.  It's a pretty sad state of affairs.   HARRY WYETH