Category: Swimming Pools
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Poor hippo can swim but not climb out of the pool
A young hippopotamus plopped into the pool on Tuesday at the Monate Conservation Lodge north of Johannesburg. The pool is big enough for the hippo to swim but it’s eight feet deep with no steps and “there’s no way he can come out,” lodge manager Ruby Ferreira told The Associated Press on Thursday. Now the…
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Uh oh, excessive heat inside Olympic Aquatics Centre raises concern
Organizers are attempting to address complaints from swim coaches over excessive heat inside the Olympic Aquatics Centre. The unexpected heat wave affecting London this week has created a greenhouse effect that sent temperatures around the pool deck and in the stands soaring to more than 30 degrees Celsius (85 Fahrenheit). Organizers play it cool. Read…
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Technical problems at Bristol Olympic training pool
The mechanism has failed that controls the bulkheads in the less than 5 months old pool at Hengrove Park Leisure Centre in Bristol, where Kenya’s Jason and David Dunford arrived to train this weekend. Divers are for now lifting them manually, so that the pool can be used both as a 50m pool as well…
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Into the Water- Teaching swimmers at the Richmond Aquatics Partnership
See Greater Richmond Aquatic Partnership
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Kilian Martin skating around the defunct Lake Dolores Waterpark
A beautiful movie from a sad site, the late Lake Dolores Waterpark. Via YouTube on Google+
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Ouch, London Aquatics Centre architect Zaha Hadid not invited to the 2012 Games
Zaha Hadid, the architect who created the £269 million London 2010 Olympic Aquatics Centre has criticised “rude†Games bosses for not inviting her to a single event. “When you’ve designed a building like this you want to see how it’s used.†Read more here on Architizer and This Is London.
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Leading architects surveying the London 2012 Olympic Park
Leading architects Amanda Levete and Piers Gough and critic Charles Jencks give their verdict on the key venues of the London Olympic site. They are blown away by the beauty of the Aquatics Centre and the Velodrome – but left deeply underwhelmed by the main stadium. Read more here on The Guardian.
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The Bondi Iceberg Opening Ceremony (in super slow motion)
The opening of the winter swimming season at Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club, captured with Epic at 100fps & Weisscam at 1000fps. Wow.