I’ve never seen one, but I imagine the volume and weight of water in them is seriously impressive. They’re 50 metres long though, So if you said 50 metres instead of a swimming pool I can easily visualise that. I guess I could try to imagine what a swimming pool looked like in that size but it’s a bit difficult as all I’ve ever seen are normal size pools and the space to hold an Olympic one must be cavernous.
There was a fairly long thread on the various dimensions of football (soccer) fields a while back. They can be seriously various in their size. I think they can’t regulate it too tightly as some famous old (i.e. belonging to seriously rich teams) grounds are in awkward spots that they can’t redevelop. Or at least they’d have to lose lots of lucrative seating to change to 100m by 70m or whatever and that’s not a runner. So it’s a useless measurement - they can be from 45 - 90M wide for example so you can’t use it as a measure.
Here it gets confusing, because whereas with the “ton” you have the metric tonne, the long ton and the short ton, all corgis are basically short, so it’s hard to tell the different units apart.
Also, attempts to create an International Standard Corgi that could be used as a reference did not go well. Scientists who isolated an appropriate corgi and attempted to store it in a sealed unit filled with inert gas quickly discovered that corgis do not thrive in an inert gas atmosphere. The standard corgi is now defined mathematically with reference to physical constants such as Planck’s constant, the speed of light, and an optimum nose-to-tail length defined by the prestigious Department of Corgoid Aesthetics at the University of Pembroke.
I think it’s interesting that the length of such a pitch is specified in yards, but the width is specified in feet. The width measurement is not evenly divisible by 3.
Agreed on the Olympic-sized pools. Most folk have never been in one. Bad analogy.
“Football” fields, be they American football, CFL, futbol/soccer, Australian rules, maybe even obscure stuff like hurling, are all about the same size, ~100m, +/-10%. Since anyone attending high school must have seen the school’s playfield, likely marked for 100-yard. So I think they’re a pretty good analogy.
