Anyone that watches field events at all only pays attention to metric. It is way easier to follow in metric.
and who watches field events outside of the competitors immediate circle of friends and family? i'm quite handy when it comes to math w/o a calculator, but even i don't want to take the time to convert metric to imperial to get a better perspective.
as an example, i just went through all the results LR posted and skip over anything listed in metric because i don't got time to do the conversion.
oh y'all want to tell i'm not a real fan? i've been following the sport faithfully for 31 years and have been a head track coach at the high school level for over a decade. have been posting here for over 20 years. running in general is my life.
but still, metric marks are like someone speaking a foreign language to me. and this is coming from someone with a strong background in the maths/sciences that thinks the entire world should be on the metric standard. BUT IT ISN'T!
If you watch the field events, you don't need to convert anything. The one with the biggest number is the leader. If someone else gets a bigger number, they are now the leader. A first grader would have no problem following. Not sure what your malfunction is.