All, I'm sitting at a bar in the Philadelphia Airport, awaiting a flight to Germany. The TVs are all tuned to ESPN, sports TV. They're talking Olympic events, specifically swimming. All swimming events are in meters, and the announcers are using the proper terminology without issue. They even went so far as to comment on proper times, in seconds, per 10 meters.
Americans might not know feet to meter conversions, but they get meters in this context. -Mike
