Think Rio officials were embarrassed they had to hire helicopters and spotters to try and keep sewage out of sailing waters?
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“We are moving to a more radical approach with the water”.
“But it’s a fun thing for all of us divers to stand up there and talk about”.
It looked bad, though Rio officials insisted it was not really all that bad.
He said the water from the competition pool will be drained and replaced with water from the warm-up pool, which he said is in “perfect condition”.
Nearly a week after the color of the water mysterious changed from blue to green, it is still unclear to the organizers how this embarrassing incident happened.
So basically, the pool manager added excessive quantities of copper sulfate to the pool water (perhaps this was a “decimal place error”?). Due to the absence of chlorine the water appears to have become a breeding ground for alga, turning the colour of the water emerald green. “All our water is over-chlorinated, so it doesn’t really matter”.
With 120 athletes competing in the diving tank and the extended period of water polo athletes, the algae grew.
Officials shut the pool down to do some more testing, but reopened it by noon and Friday competitions began as scheduled.
– Tom Steinfort (@tomsteinfort) August 12, 2016Diving pool is closed this morning. The diving pool will still be used, although the water remains green and murky.
Officials at the Rio Olympics finally have a solution for the green water that one athlete dubbed “the swamp”, and another said smells “like a fart.” While both pools seem to be improving a bit, Nascimento said there was not enough time to complete the cleaning process by Sunday.
To them, it’s easy not being green. Because of the chemical reaction, the pool’s monitoring systems still thought the water was fully chlorinated. “However, maintaining disinfectant in water has been the largest public health advance in the last century”. Hello again, blue. Hope you can stick around a while. I’ve never had a pool like this ever before.
The water gradually gets blue and clearer. While some players complained about a burning sensation in their eyes, apparently caused by extra chlorine being added to the water in an attempt to clean it, no major issues were reported.
They’ve already had to deal with a Belgian woman who won a 2012 bronze medal falling ill after sailing the polluted waters of Guanabara Bay. “This is the Olympic Games and they are putting so much chlorine in the water that people can’t see”.
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But he said since the Games have started, instead of a relaxed approach, they have shown their ability to tackle problems as quickly as possible.
