adsfdasfasfsafadfa wrote:
889tht wrote:
LOL. "10 Meters" was my favorite response.
But was anyone surprised? You could probably poll another 30 people and no one would get the correct answer. Sadly, other than the 100m dash, literally no one cares about Track & Field.
Sure but lets look at the fails
a) One guy thinks 10000m is less than a mile
b) a girl thinks they have 10m races
If there are no 10 meter races someone needs to let Matt London know.
I think there needs to be a 10 meter race now...
Calamity Joe wrote:
adsfdasfasfsafadfa wrote:
Sure but lets look at the fails
a) One guy thinks 10000m is less than a mile
b) a girl thinks they have 10m races
If there are no 10 meter races someone needs to let Matt London know.
Hahaha ?
hmmmmmmm wrote:
500m was the answer that remotely made any sense.
I thought the 10,000m answer was less ridiculous. Yeah, its more than a mile, so he fails that part of it, but at least it is an event.
500m is an extremely rare indoor distance, so anybody answering that would obviously know nothing about track, she just picked a random number she thought was less than a mile. An answer of 800m at least would have made more sense than 500m.
Juice Springsteen wrote:
I think there needs to be a 10 meter race now...
10m races would be awesome especially in like HS. Can you imagine the debates about false starts and who actually won?
RunningOtaku wrote:
It illustrates two things:
1. Americans don’t know much about the metric system
2. Most of us know even less about Track & Field
Spot on.
That was funnier than I thought it would be.
The first guy clearly wasn’t thinking but at least named a real event. The other 2 were just guessing.
if you completely misheard the question, El Guerrouj kind of sounds like Louganis, and the 10M is a real olympic event.
Bio Dome wrote:
if you completely misheard the question, El Guerrouj kind of sounds like Louganis, and the 10M is a real olympic event.
Yea, but diving events related to a mile? Come on now.
They needed to have Gabe Jennings host instead of Ken Jennings.
Wow are most Americans really that stupid?!
I imagine leaping to the line might be a viable strategy
Lasse Viren wrote:
Wow are most Americans really that stupid?!
YES.
holterskolter2 wrote:
hmmmmmmm wrote:
500m was the answer that remotely made any sense.
I thought the 10,000m answer was less ridiculous. Yeah, its more than a mile, so he fails that part of it, but at least it is an event.
500m is an extremely rare indoor distance, so anybody answering that would obviously know nothing about track, she just picked a random number she thought was less than a mile. An answer of 800m at least would have made more sense than 500m.
My guess is that she'd seen or heard of the 1500m, but misremembered it as 500m. I have a largely visual memory, so many of my memory mistakes are things that are visually similar to the correct answer.
A straight up guess is bad Jeopardy strategy, because you lose money for a wrong answer (uh, question).
Or she saw/heard about the 5000 but knew that was way too long ... "divide by 10, hey that's less than a mile, what the hekk throw it out there"
RunningOtaku wrote:
It illustrates two things:
1. Americans don’t know much about the metric system
2. Most of us know even less about Track & Field
I remember there was a Seinfeld episode where they were referring to some sort of barrier and said it was "Like breaking the 3 minute mile". God that was bad.
I can't remember the episode or anything else about it.
Can somebody find that?
semi_pro wrote:
RunningOtaku wrote:
It illustrates two things:
1. Americans don’t know much about the metric system
2. Most of us know even less about Track & Field
I remember there was a Seinfeld episode where they were referring to some sort of barrier and said it was "Like breaking the 3 minute mile". God that was bad.
I can't remember the episode or anything else about it.
Can somebody find that?
Found it :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_(Seinfeld)"...No mail carrier has successfully delivered more than 50% of their mail comparing such a feat to a three-minute mile. "
That "just a bit shorter" prompt would've gotten me to say 1600m even though a professional running 1500 is more likely.
Why does the US structure high school track differently anyways?
semi_pro wrote:
RunningOtaku wrote:
It illustrates two things:
1. Americans don’t know much about the metric system
2. Most of us know even less about Track & Field
I remember there was a Seinfeld episode where they were referring to some sort of barrier and said it was "Like breaking the 3 minute mile". God that was bad.
I can't remember the episode or anything else about it.
Can somebody find that?
It was meant to be hyperbolic to the point of being humanly impossible. I think they actually nailed it. Actually, the running related stuff on seinfeld was usually pretty spot on (except an elite marathon runner being from a sprinter country).
mansman wrote:
That "just a bit shorter" prompt would've gotten me to say 1600m even though a professional running 1500 is more likely.
Why does the US structure high school track differently anyways?
I did not know that El G was the WR holder in the 4x400 relay, the only even that is "just a bit" shorter than a mile.
unless just a bit was meant to be sarcastic, in which 10 meters is still an absurd response.
Bio Dome wrote:
semi_pro wrote:
I remember there was a Seinfeld episode where they were referring to some sort of barrier and said it was "Like breaking the 3 minute mile". God that was bad.
I can't remember the episode or anything else about it.
Can somebody find that?
It was meant to be hyperbolic to the point of being humanly impossible. I think they actually nailed it. Actually, the running related stuff on seinfeld was usually pretty spot on (except an elite marathon runner being from a sprinter country).
I disagree