The mysterious shade of the water, which contrasted sharply against the blue hue of water polo pool beside it, generated jokes about algae and dye on social media and overshadowed the women’s 10 meter synchronized platform final.
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Mario Andrada, the communication director for the Rio 2016 local organizing committee, says a sudden change in alkalinity is the culprit. Later, Andrada cited a decrease in the alkaline level in the diving well.
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.
This sudden change of color in two of the Olympic pools nearly feels like a practical joke someone pulled on all of us, but an unsanitary pool is no laughing matter. “We expect the color to be back to blue very shortly”.
There’s something in the water at the Rio Olympics: Yet another pool has deep, bright green. But a team of experts finally decided that “a proliferation of algae” was to blame, and doctors gave the OK for athletes to dive into the Shrek pond with no danger to anyone’s health.
“The only thing we said is don’t open your mouth in the water, just in case”, Benfeito said. She is in the process of completing medical school at Duke and has a wedding to prepare for next summer.
“I actually thought it was advantageous for us”, he said. Everyone wants to know what’s turning the pool green. Or will it take on one of the other colors of the Olympic rings? It’s something that’s out of our control. Heavy rain slowed the flow of new chemicals added to the water which was also green in the pool used for the synchronised swimming and water-polo.
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“I could barely open my eyes for the final quarter”, Tony Azevedo, the USA men’s water polo team captain said to Yahoo!
