On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 10:33:47AM -0500, Paul Trusten wrote: > > It has been reported to me that the National Collegiate Athletic > Association (NCAA) is moving to drop meters from its events and revert, > for example, from 1500 m to one mile, and meters back to yards, in track > events. I looked and searched on the NCAA Web site, but found no > reference to this reversion. While sports may be outside commerce, a > rejection of metric units in athletic events is a step backward for U.S. > metrication as well as a rejection of the measurement system used in > international athletics. Does anyone have more information on this?
About half way down on http://gometric.us/jforum/posts/list/15/8.page -- End dual-measurement, let's finish going metric! http://gometric.us/ http://www.metric.org/
