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David King
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Would it be possible to add metric measurements to your website as well?
Is the swim exactly 2.4 miles or 3.8 km?
The cycle race is 112 miles which is 180 km, which is the closer distance to the exact distance?
And the run is 26.2 miles, 42.18 km, is this the official marathon length? The proper official marathon distance is 40.195 km.
By federal law (Metric Conversion Act of 1975, as amended 1988), The metric system is the legally preferred system of measurement for trade and commerce in the United States, and this ought to apply to sports events as well (athletic sports in other countries, including the Olympics in which Americans took part, is totally metric). I hope you will use the metric system in reporting all measurements. This will not only comply with federal preference, but it will also make the distances and measurements understandable to non-U.S. participants and viewers of the website, who mostly do not understand miles, degrees Fahrenheit.
I also noticed that for events in other countries, which are metric, you still insist on using US customary measurements, which is really not professional at all.
David King
