Rio 2016 said: ” TomDaley1994 As approved by fina89, diving training is cancelled b/c the water must be still for the pool to return to its blue color”. 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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The organisers said the pool would reopen later on Friday for training as well as for the women’s individual three-metre springboard preliminaries.
Tom Daley, who won a bronze medal in synchronized diving for the United Kingdom earlier this week, tweeted “Ermmm.what happened?!”
“Midafternoon, there was a sudden decrease in the alkalinity of in the diving pool, and that’s the main reason the color changed”, Mario Andrada, a Rio spokesman, said Wednesday. He conceded that some athletes were bothered by the water, but said that was a result of efforts to get the water clean.
The pool already looked like a science experiment, but once technicians started playing around with the chemical balance, athletes began to report itchy eyes and vision issues.
This time, it’s the water polo pool. We reduced immediately the quantity.
Canadian diver Meaghan Befeito told CNN Wednesday, “The only thing we said is, ‘Don’t open your mouth in the water.’ Just in case”. Nor do they change the fact that the water remains green.
He said the decision was supported by world governing body FINA.
“There is no risk to the athletes – an independent group has confirmed that – and the pool should go back to the classic blue colour soon”.
Also, the pool apparently has a foul odor.
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.
“Athletes are performing dry training this morning in Maria Lenk”.
A second pool in the 2016 Rio Olympics recently turned green.
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The pool had steadily been turning greener and greener after beginning the Olympics as a calming shade of blue.
