A more recent list of results for Track and Field gives *distances only in meters* followed by blank spaces. Can it be that an AP editor somewhere has deleted non-metric units?
---- Original message ---- >Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:44:51 -0400 >From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:41616] RE: AP Reporting >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >The Washington Post, thank God, is starting to do that, but they express it >thus: > >(5.40) 17-8 1/2 > >Metric first, but unidentified, then the colonial units. They are probably >showing metric because (1) these are the official results (2) that's what >was fed to them by the source or (3) both. The AP Stylebook is probably >requiring the wombat. > >Carleton > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 11:23 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:41612] AP Reporting > >My local newspaper gives meters first followed by feet, inches, and quarter >inches for the pole vault.
