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There are pools of all different sizes labled "Olympic." How can all these different sized pools be Olympic? Are they mislabled?
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The Olympics are swum in a 50-meter pool, which is equivalent to 164 feet long.
Some of the pools are pretty close. The Sunset Park pool I now frequent in the summer is listed as 162' wide (L=259') Picture:
maps.google.com/
I wonder why they didn't just make it two feet wider. The pool on the right is just a sprinkler setup a couple inches deep. The pool on the left is a diving pool but it's been closed for at least six years-- due to insurance reasons the senior lifeguard told me. Last summer they filled it in with sand and made it a volleyball court. The sand blows into main pool now and adds a little grit to the bottom in the lap area. The lanes are real wide but there are no lane lines.
A couple of the other pools are listed at 165', just a foot too long. Weird.
Some of the pools on that link are described as 330 feet long. I'm not sure I've ever seen such a pool. One of those 330' pools is in my old neighborhood of Red Hook. I used to go there sometimes to cool off, though I didn't swim much then. Here's the airial photo. 330' is the length, but the way the lanes are painted it's 130'.
maps.google.com/
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Former Member
The Olympics are swum in a 50-meter pool, which is equivalent to 164 feet long.
Some of the pools are pretty close. The Sunset Park pool I now frequent in the summer is listed as 162' wide (L=259') Picture:
maps.google.com/
I wonder why they didn't just make it two feet wider. The pool on the right is just a sprinkler setup a couple inches deep. The pool on the left is a diving pool but it's been closed for at least six years-- due to insurance reasons the senior lifeguard told me. Last summer they filled it in with sand and made it a volleyball court. The sand blows into main pool now and adds a little grit to the bottom in the lap area. The lanes are real wide but there are no lane lines.
A couple of the other pools are listed at 165', just a foot too long. Weird.
Some of the pools on that link are described as 330 feet long. I'm not sure I've ever seen such a pool. One of those 330' pools is in my old neighborhood of Red Hook. I used to go there sometimes to cool off, though I didn't swim much then. Here's the airial photo. 330' is the length, but the way the lanes are painted it's 130'.
maps.google.com/
