How Are All These NYC Pools Olympic?

www.nycgovparks.org/.../af_pools.html Click on any of the five green Borough tabs. There are pools of all different sizes labled "Olympic." How can all these different sized pools be Olympic? Are they mislabled? Yes. An Olympic pool is 50 meters long. There are only two pools in NYC that meet Olympic specifications -- Asphalt Green in Manhattan and Lehman College in the Bronx. There's also a 50 meter pool at Riverbank State Park but it's only four feet deep, too shallow for competition. The Parks Department is making the health club/hotel mistake of calling any rectangular pool that's long enough for lap swimming "Olympic."

www.nycgovparks.org/.../af_pools.html Click on any of the five green Borough tabs. There are pools of all different sizes labled "Olympic." How can all these different sized pools be Olympic? Are they mislabled? Yes. An Olympic pool is 50 meters long. There are only two pools in NYC that meet Olympic specifications -- Asphalt Green in Manhattan and Lehman College in the Bronx. There's also a 50 meter pool at Riverbank State Park but it's only four feet deep, too shallow for competition. The Parks Department is making the health club/hotel mistake of calling any rectangular pool that's long enough for lap swimming "Olympic."