Frankly, I am getting tired of all this handwringing about how "hard" the
metric system is. Get over it! Six billion people around the world seem
to have no problem with it. Are Americans ignoramuses?
And now we find out (surprise!) that our USA Olympians look like fools
before those of other nations because they haven't been educated in the
world's (and the official US) measurement system. And these people are
supposed to be the cream of the crop. What an example we are setting for
the rest of the world. No wonder we're tied for 17th place with Iceland
in education!
Hard Lessons At the Olympics, Like The Metric System
http://www.gpb.org/news/2012/08/12/hard-lessons-at-the-olympics-like-the-metric-system
