Pictures from the venue on Wednesday show the diving pool is still tinged with green, while the adjacent pool used for the synchronised swimming and water polo appears to be going the same way.
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Rio Olympic diving pool turned a bright shade of green on Tuesday, and the reason was at first shrouded in mystery.
Ontario company Sustainable Aquatic Systems helped install numerous Olympic pools in Rio de Janeiro.
Andrada said experts had concluded “there is absolutely no risk whatsoever for the health of anybody”.
“We were expecting the pool to be blue again in the morning but the rain impacted a little bit the speed of the changes”.
But we now know why, according to the New York Times. “It should go back to classic blue colour during the day”.
But by Wednesday the cause was clear, Andrada said, telling the Associated Press that the water changed color because of “a proliferation of algae”.
More pool water is turning green at the Olympics. The colour change left many puzzled and theorizing what caused it. “So the question is, leading up to the Olympics, what were the chemical levels, what were the chlorine levels of this pool”, Derosa said.
According ot a statement released by FINA, the global governing body for aquatic sports, the pools have already run out of water treatment chemicals.
Maria Lenk is home to both the water polo preliminary and diving competitions, but the two events are held in side-by-side pools in the same complex.
FINA also added that its sport medicine committee had deemed the water safe for competition. But she said the water didn’t smell or affect her skin. “We kept the same level of maintenance as we did before, but we had far more athletes”, he said.
“It is so green”, British diver Tonia Couch, who finished fifth with Lois Toulson in the women’s 10-meter platform, said.
Confusion and Curiosity struck Olympic divers as they discovered that they will be jumping into what looked like a pool of green jelly.
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“If it has gone green and it’s due to a lack of disinfectant, then that means there is some sort of implied threat or risk”.
