• The green diving pool proves we were right to fear filthy left-wing Rio

    From Dirty Mexicans@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 10 21:50:06 2016
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    The green diving pool story has gone stratospheric because it’s
    funny and it’s something we can all get a handle on: green pool,
    blue pool; swamp, water. That’s certainly a lot easier to grasp
    than the finer points of triple inward pike half twist, which
    are only put before us once every four years. But the joke has a
    dark edge to it, too.

    We are in the middle of the event which represents the pinnacle
    of competition for the world’s best divers, the event which
    they’ve focussed most of their waking hours on for at least the
    last year. And yet the Rio de Janeiro Olympics organisers can
    neither summon the energy nor the intelligence to offer an
    explanation for the change of colour, or even see to it that the
    problem is resolved.

    For those nations competent in staging elite sport, every stone
    would have been turned over to restore the purity of the water
    and dignify the world’s best divers with the respect they
    deserve. But, as Japan and Australia battled it out in the water
    polo in the blue pool this morning, the green one remained, in
    just the same state as we had last seen it on Tuesday night. Not
    the mildest effort to rectify the problem, nor any evidence of
    an attempt to do so.

    To say so risks exuding that air of western superiority that the
    British Olympic Association is so keen to guard against here,
    but can you imagine the reaction if the pool had turned green in
    London four years ago? It would have been nothing less than a
    national crisis. The engineers would have been put to work
    through the night – and we would have been put to work through
    the night to live blog their efforts.

    The Rio organisers have not even graced us with an explanation
    for the change in colour. They say they've tested the water,
    that there's no risk to athletes’ health and that they're
    investigating further. Well, that’s ok then.

    It takes minimal investigation to know that algae – living
    marine creatures which multiply in warm weather – cause a pool
    to turn green, and that an imbalance in the pool’s water
    chemicals, poor circulation, filtration or sanitation are the
    most likely reasons why algae would proliferate.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rio-2016-green-diving-pool- right-to-fear-brazil-olympic-games-a7182996.html

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  • From Dirty Mexicans@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 10 21:16:27 2016
    XPost: alt.politics.liberalism, sac.politics, rec.sport.olympics
    XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

    The green diving pool story has gone stratospheric because it’s
    funny and it’s something we can all get a handle on: green pool,
    blue pool; swamp, water. That’s certainly a lot easier to grasp
    than the finer points of triple inward pike half twist, which
    are only put before us once every four years. But the joke has a
    dark edge to it, too.

    We are in the middle of the event which represents the pinnacle
    of competition for the world’s best divers, the event which
    they’ve focussed most of their waking hours on for at least the
    last year. And yet the Rio de Janeiro Olympics organisers can
    neither summon the energy nor the intelligence to offer an
    explanation for the change of colour, or even see to it that the
    problem is resolved.

    For those nations competent in staging elite sport, every stone
    would have been turned over to restore the purity of the water
    and dignify the world’s best divers with the respect they
    deserve. But, as Japan and Australia battled it out in the water
    polo in the blue pool this morning, the green one remained, in
    just the same state as we had last seen it on Tuesday night. Not
    the mildest effort to rectify the problem, nor any evidence of
    an attempt to do so.

    To say so risks exuding that air of western superiority that the
    British Olympic Association is so keen to guard against here,
    but can you imagine the reaction if the pool had turned green in
    London four years ago? It would have been nothing less than a
    national crisis. The engineers would have been put to work
    through the night – and we would have been put to work through
    the night to live blog their efforts.

    The Rio organisers have not even graced us with an explanation
    for the change in colour. They say they've tested the water,
    that there's no risk to athletes’ health and that they're
    investigating further. Well, that’s ok then.

    It takes minimal investigation to know that algae – living
    marine creatures which multiply in warm weather – cause a pool
    to turn green, and that an imbalance in the pool’s water
    chemicals, poor circulation, filtration or sanitation are the
    most likely reasons why algae would proliferate.

    How do you solve the problem? Get a good pool brush. Loosen the
    algae off the floor and sides of the pool. Then ‘shock’ the pool
    with chlorine. The treatment required really is as simple as
    that.

    The British diver Tonia Couch made light of the problem after
    she and 16-year-old partner Lois Toulson came fifth in the 10m
    synchronised event on Tuesday. “It looked worse because the sun
    went in,” she said. “I couldn’t see Lois when I went underneath.”

    So there we have it. We reach the moment when more obscure
    Olympic sports need the focus to be on the technical excellence
    and panache of competitors – from board, to water and back to
    the surface – so that they might draw a new generation in. And
    instead, we are discussing conditions so poor that competitors
    can’t even see themselves under the water.

    What a humbling and crashing embarrassment. We were right all
    along to have profound concerns about Rio’s competence to stage
    these Olympics.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/rio-2016-green-diving-pool- right-to-fear-brazil-olympic-games-a7182996.html

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