So far, NBC has only broadcast part of one field event in their coverage today;
the qualifying round of men's shot put.
As expected, the announcers have avoided telling us the true performance and
settled for the approximate conversion to feet and inches, in spite of lines on
the field being marked in metric. Very confusing, as always.
Oddly, the NBC website gives only official results in metric:
Overal schedule:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/track-and-field/results-schedules/index.html
Shotput:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/track-and-field/event/men-shot-put/phase=atm051900/index.html
Just as an example, the performance of Reese Hoffa (winner in group B) was
broadcast as 70-01, but his measured performance is 21.36 m.
Hey NBC, the Olympics is totally metric, the athlete's performance IS the
story, hence important to the story, so it's OK to report metric. Please tell
us the athlete's true (measured) performance first, then throw in a conversion
if you are really convinced you need to.
