Category: Swimming Pools
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‘Overdressed’ mum barred from swimming pool
Read Illawarra Mercury A Dapto mum who was not allowed to swim at Port Kembla Olympic Pool because she was wearing too much clothing for the lifeguard’s liking has lodged a complaint with Wollongong council, citing discrimination. Body-conscious Katherine Pulo wore a rash vest and a stretchy, lightweight dress as she approached the pool with…
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London Olympic Park Aquatics Centre to open
Read BBC The Aquatics Centre used in the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics is to reopen for the first time since the games. […] Visitor ticket prices for the Aquatics Centre will start from £4.50 a session when it opens in March, according to the LLDC. The centre, which has two 50m pools, a diving pool and…
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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…