Temporarily Close Diving Pool

The Olympic diving pool emerge as in quick closed for schooling Friday morning as officials attempted to change its color from inexperienced to blue.

"We verify that diving training in Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre pool is canceled this morning," Rio 2016 spokesman Philip Wilkinson stated. "The cause is that the water want to be however so the pool can cross again to its blue colour as quickly as possible."


The water unexpectedly became green Tuesday, midway through the synchronized diving occasions. The pool became shut down at the identical time as some divers arrived Friday morning, even though it did in the long run open round midday. Simon Langford, media venue supervisor at Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre, says education has resumed and preliminaries of women's three-meter springboard will move on as scheduled later Friday.


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The pool remained green early Friday afternoon.

Langford says the selection to cancel workout have become supported by means of way of way of FINA, the sport's global governing frame.

The murky green water of the pool has been a speaking point of the video games up to now.

A decrease inside the alkaline degree inside the diving nicely Tuesday afternoon brought about the inexperienced coloration, organizing committee spokesman Mario Andrada said. He added that the pool for water polo and synchronized swimming is being affected in the identical manner, however "we assume the coloration to be back to blue in no time.''

 diving sports have been scheduled for fri. Afternoon.

The related Press contributed to this record.

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