2020, uh, 21, uh, who knows Tokyo Olympics thread

NBC just showed the final round of the triple jump. Dude from Portugal won. But if you flip to USA, they are showing the final round of the triple jump - with a live bug in the upper right of the screen.

 

Gable Steveson is freakishly quick and athletic for a big man. He outclassed and dominated a gold medalist.
When Akgul had a decent single leg shot and Steveson picked the ankle and got behind Akgul looked
completely defeated.

 

I'll play the ugly American -- c'mon AP, at least put field distances in feet in the story some way: parentheses, brackets, something. Telling me someone did something in meters isn't helping.

 

Just treat a meter like a yard. There’s a three-inch difference, but it’s pretty close if you do that.

 

So, in the javelin take 97 meters and multiply by 3, to get 291 feet. Then multiply those extra three inches times 97, for 291 inches. Then divide by 12, for 24 feet, three inches. Then add them all together, for 315 feet, three inches. Except that 97 meters is 318 feet, 2 inches.

How about realizing that 99% of the American public can't tell 97 meters from second base, and give us the English measurement everyone in this country lives their lives by.

 

Could be worse. You could have Reuters and have to translate all the copy from European or rely on Field Level Media copy someone aggregated from the TV.

 

Except now they list field distances in hundredths of a meter, like 2.97 meters for the high jump. Is that 6 feet, 7 feet, somewhere in between?
Every U.S.-based story on anything includes distances in both miles and kilometers, like "Philadelphia is 100 miles (62 kilometers) from New York." Can't they at least do the same for these Olympics stories?

 

Kevin Durant. Start with the peak Oscar Robertson in terms of ability and versatility and make all the limbs six inches longer.

 

2.97 is closer to 10 feet, but I see your point. I was thinking it was from the throwing events which you can do some rounding.

 

You can’t do rounding in a game story.

“Ryan Crouser won the shot put gold medal with an Olympic-record throw of about 76 feet or so.”

 

And what's up with Celsius?

 

The BBC might employ nerds, but it clearly doesn't employ the right kind of nerds.