The water at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center was greener Tuesday during the womenâ s synchronized diving competition 10-meter platform final than one day earlier during the menâ s competition. The water apparently doesn’t smell too good.
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The Olympic diving pool started turing green on Tuesday, while the water polo pool – which sits next to the diving pool – starting changing colour on Wednesday.
The statement read, “FINA can confirm that the reason for the unusual water color observed during the Rio diving competitions is that the water tanks ran out of some of the chemicals used in the water treatment process”.
The problem may come from a faulty filter or problematic water quality, the executive director of swimming’s world governing body FINA told Reuters. “This is the Olympic Games and they are putting so much chlorine in the water that people can’t see”.
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The use of chemicals began to address the embarrassment of green water that developed Wednesday when the pool water mysteriously turned to the color of swamp green. We certainly could have done better in the beginning to prevent the water from turning green.
Andrada said officials were caught off guard by the pool’s deteriorating condition. As a result, Olympic pool personnel shocked the water with a heavy dose of chlorine to attempt getting it back to its normal blue color.
When the reason for the pools turning green is having too many people/athletes in them, something is wrong.
Rio 2016 spokesperson Mario Andrada said: “We did have test events with the same number of divers but we are using the pool for a longer period now”.
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But no fear, we’ve found out why the water turned such an alarming shade – and no it wasn’t because someone used it as a toilet. While FINA says that the murky waters should not affect the competition at all, it’s important to look at the photos.
