Bad Wigins wrote:
Nobody said anything about yards, furlongs or any of the other measurements of ignorant medieval peasants.
These people never even left their villages to meet the other peasants from the other villages, so all their standards were based on how far the local oxen could pull a plow = one furlong. And it's all based on that. Miles, yards, feet, inches, all of it! It is ancient, primitive and useless. Join the enlightened age of science and reason.
As for 400 meters, I don't believe Murray or Federer could run anywhere near 52. To go that fast with no training requires naturally good sprinting form which is not common at all, probably much less if you're trained for something like tennis.
The first paragraph of this post is pure gold! Thank you for the chuckle! BTW, I don't think Federer would break 18:00, he might go 54 on the 400.