If you ever get the chance to see an Oz tv series called The Games, which is a very funny fictional insight into the planning of the Sydney Olympic Games, you definitely need to see the episode about planning and building the athletes track. The main actor is John Clarke, whose humour is very clever, very distinctive. He is an Aussie icon. I think it is very funny that our national government-owned tv station, ABC, showed the series in the lead up to the Sydney Olympics.
In the episode about the athletes track they are discussing whether to cut construction costs by shortening the length of the track, and then they argue the consequences in Olympic Games if the track is not the standard length.