Q: I got home from work last night and couldn’t wait to get into my pool to soak away the day, but when I got to the backyard, the pool water was green—not light green, either, but dark. I didn’t even ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic officials say they will drain the larger pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center to remove the green-tinged water. The director of venue management, Gustavo Nascimento, ...
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The Olympic diving pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatic Center became discolored during Tuesday’s competition, which has been attributed to algae or high alkalinity levels in the pool. Matt Majendie of the ...
The Rio Olympics ran into a small hiccup on Tuesday when the water in the diving pool mysteriously turned green. Rio officials admitted to not knowing what caused the color change, but it mattered ...
The saga of the water in the diving and water polo pools at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center in Rio de Janeiro is, shall we say, a very colorful tale. When the Olympics began on Aug. 5, the pools were ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic officials say they will drain the larger pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center to remove the green-tinged water. The director of venue management, Gustavo Nascimento, ...