Category: Swimming Pools
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Behold the abandoned swimming pool in Pyramiden, Svalbard
Pyramiden is a ghost town on Svalbard (Norway), way north in the Atlantic Ocean, named after the nearby, pyramid-shaped mountain. A former Russian settlement and coal mining community, it was abandoned apparently in a hurry in 1998, leaving behind stuff like a “Red October” grand piano in the cultural centre auditorium, and an empty swimming…
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Your money pool is ready, Scrooge McDuck
Read KSL Imagine a great big pile of 8 million gold coins in a vault — enough gold coins that if the coins were water you would have a nice swimming pool. This is not a fantasy. This is something that you could own and wade through at your leisure. The “Money Swimming Pool†is…
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From ‘Box’ to Swim Stadium in 45 seconds
Timelapse of the construction on the Herning 2013 European Short Course Championships venue.
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CC photo #700: The Herning 2013 Swimming Pools
The competition pool for the LEN 2013 European Short Course Championships in Herning, Denmark, the warm-up pool also seen in the background. Photo taken during our first practice in ‘the Box’, Monday 9 December 2013.
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Finnish swimming hall rejects 3-year old boy: Not allowed during ladies-only sessions
Read yle uutiset Patrons of the Rantakylä swimming hall in Joensuu, northeast Finland are perplexed by the rules pertaining to special ladies-only swimming sessions. A local mother recently tried to take her three-year old son to the session but they were turned away and told that only women were allowed. (Image courtesy of Michael Coghlan, CC…
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Water level rising as planned in the Box in Herning
Wednesday 4 December 2013 at 18:00, 25-year-old Chris Christensen had the honor to begin the filling of the 2013 European Short Course Championships pools, on behalf of the Danish national swimming team and federation. This event will be his 8th European Championships, and the first ever in which the Danes have home advantage. – “This is…
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The Herning 2013 European pool part of a ‘green wave’
See svoem.dk (in Danish) ‘The European Short Course Championships are in every way a historic event in Denmark. The pools for the Championships are temporary and recycled from the London 2012 Olympics and the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona. After the European Championships, parts of the pools will once again be recycled – this time…
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How two guys mapped all the pools in Los Angeles
Read Los Angeles Times “Using complex computer mapping, they counted 43,123 between the Hollywood Hills and San Pedro, from pools shaded by leaf-covered pergolas in Santa Monica to ones surrounded by chain-link fences in Alhambra. Along the way, they discovered something more than just the real-world versions of the iconic David Hockney pool utopias. Their…
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The Herning 2013 pool construction has started
A Depeche Mode concert in the Boxen venue Saturday night, and now Myrtha is working around the clock to have the pools ready for the 2013 European Short Course Championships in Herning, Denmark, starting 10 days from now. Saturday night Monday morning Post by EM i svømning 2013.