Olympic divers wonder why their pool is green

Reports from Rio de Janeiro indicate that the water at the Olympic diving pool has turned a shade of light green.

Despite the off-colored water, the women’s 10m platform diving finals took place as scheduled.

Olympic officials were left red-faced when they were forced to admit that the diving pool was turned green by algae overnight in the pool.

Sure, China won its third consecutive gold medal on Tuesday, but the buzz was about the color of the water in the diving pool – a murky green.

The pool appeared blue during the men’s 10 meter platform event on Monday, in which Daley won a bronze medal alongside teammate Daniel Goodfellow.

There have been many issues surrounding the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, but so far, we’re 4 days in and things have gone off rather smoothly… until tonight.

Official word from Rio organisers is that tests have been conducted in the water and it has been found to be safe – there is no threat to the divers.

Games officials were yesterday forced to deny the unusual colour of the water in the diving pool was a threat to the well being of the competitors – as well as accusations urine caused the blunder.

So, the pool staff probably needs to add some chemicals to the pool because the green color is usually because of algae growing in the water. “The visuals are really, really important in diving”.

Paola Espinosa of Mexico, competing in her fourth Olympics, noticed the pool getting increasingly darker throughout the six-round competition.

“I don’t know what it’s going to look like tomorrow”, he said.