After four consecutive days of green, cloudy water in the pools at Maria Lenk Aquatics Center, Rio officials finally drained and refilled the pool used for water polo in an effort to restore its color. He said it should be completed by 7 a.m. Sunday, with the scheduled start of the duet free preliminary set for 11 a.m.
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The diving pool at Maria Lenk Aquatics Stadium is a murky green before the Women’s Synchronised 10m Platform Final.
The process of draining 1 million gallons of water and replacing it is expected to take about 10 hours.
Olympics officials in Rio said someone mistakenly added 160 liters of hydrogen peroxide to two competition pools on August 5.
There was never a health risk, a health worry or concern in any shape or form. Given that synchronized swimmers need to see one another below the water’s surface, Olympics officials were quick to try to clear up the second pool. Athletes have been complaining that the water – or the chemicals treating it – has been hurting their eyes, and that murkiness makes underwater visibility impossible.
“On the day of the Opening Ceremonies of the Games, 80 liters of hydrogen peroxide was put in the water”, he said. The error neutralized the chlorine, allowing “organic compounds” to grow which may have included algae.
The fact that 120 athletes were using the diving pool also increased the amount of “organics” in the water, he added.
He said: ‘Of course it’s an embarrassment.
“This is a way of cleaning swimming pools but you’re not supposed to combine it with chlorine”, said Nascimento.
“At the end of the day, yeah, the color of the pool may be different or the pH level is whatever it is, but it’s a pool”, US women’s captain Maggie Steffens said.
Gustavo Nascimento, the director of venue management of the Rio Olympics, said the chemical is a flawless cleaning agent and is commonly used in cleaning pools, except when in combination of chlorine.
Officials said on Saturday that the pool would be drained and replaced with almost a million gallons of clear water before the start of the synchronized swimming on Sunday, reports Xinhua.
We truly hope that in the first 12-hour cycle, we are going to see a sensible reaction on the overall aesthetics of the water. Who knew that we could all learn a valuable life lesson from the green fart water at the Rio Olympics?
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“It’s so green. But, we got a personal best score, so maybe we should ask for a green pool from now on”.
