04-01-2022, 10:51 PM
The Olympic-sized swimming pool comparison has always bugged me.
We don't typically encounter Olympic-sized swimming pools in NZ (there's only a handful of them in the country) so using it as a unit of measurement is bordering on meaningless. I know that the pool is 50m long. How wide? No idea. How deep? Wouldn't have a clue.
At least with rugby fields we've seen enough of them to get an idea, but a rough cliched comparison is no excuse to not giving the true measurement.
We don't typically encounter Olympic-sized swimming pools in NZ (there's only a handful of them in the country) so using it as a unit of measurement is bordering on meaningless. I know that the pool is 50m long. How wide? No idea. How deep? Wouldn't have a clue.
At least with rugby fields we've seen enough of them to get an idea, but a rough cliched comparison is no excuse to not giving the true measurement.