Pretty amazing structure. I'm going to contact our city planners and suggest we get one.
"I want a water cube!" (say it in Veruca Salt's voice).
:groovy::groovy:
Just thought you would like to see the swim pool I trained in as a kid. The fellow in the picture is George Larson he won the 100 yards at the 1934 British Empire games. He held the Canadian Record for the 100 until I broke his record in that same pool. Here is a story about George on his 90th birthday slam.canoe.ca/.../pf-677993.html
In a similar vein, why do they have starting blocks in Lanes 0 and 9 if nobody uses them to race? (Yes, OK. For warm-ups and practicing starts but don't they have another pool for that? :p )
I'm sure there are plenty of meets that would use all 10 lanes for competition. The Olympics won't. But plenty of age group, masters, etc., meets would.
-Rick
Lovely structure is The Cube. It's an icon that I expect will invigorate people all over the world to swim more.
More pictures are here.... photo.beijing2008.cn/subject-214047924-1.html
I was unsuccessful in finding out details about the pool.
Beijing just opened their National Aquatic Center 2 weeks ago.
It's a very interesting work of architecture.
en.beijing2008.cn/.../index.shtml
Here's a video of the interior.
en.beijing2008.cn/.../index.shtml
No 'Race Club' style starting blocks...yet.
In a similar vein, why do they have starting blocks in Lanes 0 and 9 if nobody uses them to race? (Yes, OK. For warm-ups and practicing starts but don't they have another pool for that? :p )
