Not so. Not at all.
The use of yards in hockey, miles in the marathon - miles for bike races - for
example, and various other usages. It's up to the commentator who will
probably be unaware of any underlying 'measurement battles' so to speak.
Running events, for example, would never be translated from meters into yards -
however - when they looked at Usain Bolt's (sp?) run yesterday the BBC graphics
and commentary showed a slo-mo of him running and each pace was superimposed by
a line growing to 8ft (shown in the graphics), then showing his height in feet
and inches too, graphically. All this was in the commentary too. They compared
his pace with the "next best" showing his pace in feet too.
CNN international and BBC World tend to try to stick to metric, whereas
domestic output is altogether very different. In the UK we cannot get BBC
World (not without home made decryption cards etc!!).
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Subject: [USMA:41603]
> Olympics in UK reported solely in metric> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:52:07
> +0000> > I checked with one of my UKMA contacts about units used in TV
> coverage of the Olympics in the UK. He tells me it has been entirely in
> metric.> > I wonder if Tom Wade can confirm that this is also the case in
> Ireland. (I hope so!)> > Ezra>
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