Britain’s Tom Daley was among the divers questioning why the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre was closed on Friday as they turned up to practice. Officials insisted the water was safe for competing, even after a larger, adjacent pool used for water polo and synchronized swimming also turned a lighter shade of green.
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The pool re-opened Friday, and events will continue as scheduled.
Andrada said the discolored water posed no health threat to competitors and was being regularly tested by health experts from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), FINA and Rio 2016.
The organizers said the pool would reopen later on Friday for training as well as for the women’s individual three-meter springboard preliminaries. We reduced immediately the quantity.
Heavy rain in recent days had made it more hard to fine-tune the levels of chlorine in the open-air pool accurately, he added.
“The rain doesn’t help”, Andrada said. Find us on Facebook too! “We certainly could have done better in the beginning to prevent the water from turning green”. Other divers have said they are trying to make sure they do not open their mouths underwater because they are anxious about swallowing any of the murky water. “We made a little mistake”. “I actually kind of like it because it makes spotting easier”.
Azevedo added: “This is the Olympic Games and they are putting so much chlorine in the water that people can’t see”. “She wrote on Twitter that “#FixTheSwamp” should start trending.
“It just speaks to the communication issues we’ve faced a number of times since we’ve been here”, said Johnston, who still managed to qualify for Saturday’s semifinals with the sixth-highest score.
“All you have to do is maintain the pools correctly, but it sounds like they are now slamming them with chlorine to get rid of the green colour”.
Well, except for one little matter.
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He explained that the changing color of the pool was the result of increased alkaline levels, much like aquarium water can turn green when not monitored properly.
