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Is there any chance the person creating the report
cited mistakenly thought they needed to convert "meters" to
"yards"?
Logically, that would be a pretty dumb thing to do,
but maybe someone was blindly following some guideline about converting metric
to US Customary.
Ezra
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 3:30
PM
Subject: [USMA:36515] Re: NCAA Swimming
Pool Lengths
Stan
Doore wrote
In a few years, Ohio Wesleyan University
will build a new indoor swimming pool and it will be 50 yards
long.
Dear All,
It
would appear from the USA Swimming web pages at:
http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en
That USA Swimming is committed to using metres in the future. In
particular go to the parents page and search for
meter.
Cheers,
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On 9/04/06 4:29 AM, "Bill Hooper"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Stan Doore wrote
In a few years, Ohio Wesleyan University
will build a new indoor swimming pool and it will be 50 yards
long.
which Carleton
MacDonald answered by giving a reference to the NCAA rules that show that
all long pools designed and built after 1996 must be 50 METRES* long.
However, for short pools, they allow either 25 yards (the rules state 75 ft)
or 25 metres. It's too bad they leave the 25 yard option open, but perhaps
the fact that 25 m is permitted and that for long pools 50 m is REQUIRED
might help convince people that new short pools should be designed with 25 m
lengths.
I hope Stan can get that information to the remarkably
UNinformed people at Ohio Wesleyan. Maybe it will help. (And maybe not. Some
people are very adept at ignoring the
facts.)
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fernandina Beach,
Florida, USA
*PS I note that, strangely, the exact lengths specified
in the rules are 25 m, 2.54 cm for short pools (that is 25.0254 m) and 50 m,
2.54 cm for long pools (50.0254 m). How strange! Even the allowed yard
measured short pools are specified as 75 ft, 2.54 cm, which is even
stranger!)
Does anyone have any idea why such pools are just a little
bit longer than 25 m or 50 m (or 75 ft), and why that "little bit" is
exactly one inch?
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Make It
Simple; Make It
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