Green pool to be drained, refilled for synchronized swimming

The saga of the green Olympic diving pool has already had as many twists and turns as Tom Daley leaping from the 10m platform.

The director of venue management, Gustavo Nascimento, says clean water from a nearby practice pool will be transferred to the main pool in time for the start of synchronized swimming on Sunday. The water at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre diving pool had turned green earlier in the week.

By Thursday, players who competed in the water polo pool found it was not as chlorinated as the previous day.

The diving pool will remain in use.

Officials said training was cancelled as “the water must be still for the pool to return to its blue colour”.

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Some people said that the unnatural color of the pool threw a number of Rio Olympics 2016 divers off during the competition that resulted to poor performances.

“Chemistry is not an exact science”, he said.

While the women’s 3-meter springboard semifinals were being held at one end of the facility Saturday, the bigger pool was slowly being drained.

Heavy rain in recent days had made it more hard to fine-tune the levels of chlorine in the open-air pool accurately, he added.

“Now the water quality problems are moving to the pool”, said Jose Tundisi, a prominent Brazilian water resources researcher and professor at Feevale University in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul State, who has been outspoken about the unsafe pollution in Rio’s bay. Athletes are performing dry training this morning in Maria Lenk.

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“We know how many athletes will be here”, said Andrada clarified. A backup platform is set to be brought in for the women’s 10-kilomter race Monday.

“I could barely open my eyes for the final quarter”, Team USA men’s water polo captain Tony Acevedo said after defeating Greece on Wednesday. Competitors complained of itchy eyes after officials put extra chlorine in to combat what appeared to be algae.