I knew I should have just checked this out before I sent my previous
message (q.v.)!
The Olympic rules for volleyball net heights is given on their web
site* as:
"The height of the net shall be 2.43 m (7 feet, 11 and 5/8 inches) for
men and 2.24 m (7 feet, 4 and 1/8 inches for women."**
Clearly, the size is not a simple number in EITHER system of units.
One can only wonder why.
In any case, on the question of whether the "true" Olympic values are
metric (and the announcers converted it to ft-in) or rather they are
the ft-in values stated by the announcers and which the Olympic rules
converted to metric, nothing I wrote previously is relevant.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
* http://www.sportsunlimitedinc.com/volleyballrule.html
** P.S.
The Olympic rules go on to specify that the heights quoted are to be
measured at the center of the net. They give further specifications of
how much higher the net may be at the sides of the court, over the
sidelines. The value given is "2 cm (3/4 in)".
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SImplification Begins With SI.
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Olympics begins with "Oh, Limp!"
