Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3308301, member: 1131"] The reason I assume that these measurements are more accurate is that this is an international competition which is not under the control of the players' colleges or pro teams. Moreover, they are providing the same measurements for every national team in the tournament, which creates the expectation that the measurements are done consistently for all the participating teams. I don't see why the organizers of an international tournament such as this would have an incentive to exaggerate the height of any player or any team. Since at least one of the major participants (the USA) undoubtedly does not keep internal records that are denominated in meters (and there would be an obvious lack of comparability in converting a USA-provided height in feet/inches into hundredths of meters when other countries would require no similar conversion), an obvious remedy would be for the tournament organizers to require or actually perform a fresh measurement in meters under controlled conditions (e.g., requiring players to be barefoot when measured). I hope (but can't confirm) that such a fresh measurement was done in this case. [/QUOTE]