An international distance tri and an olympic.

We have the standard olympic here and also races that are billed as "international distance". Is this a standard all over, or is this just a weird regional thing 'round these parts...where we swim in poo..........

So Oly....... .9m swim, 25 mile bike, 10 k run...

International??? we have one listed as 1/2 mile swim, 29 bike, 4.2 mile run.

Is somebody just making this up?????