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Interior view of the Olympic Aquatics Stadium, the temporary venue used for swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Similar to the program's format in 2012, swimming features a total of 34 events (17 each for men and women), including two 10 km open-water marathons. The following events were contested (all pool events are long course, and ...
The Olympic Aquatics Stadium (Portuguese: Estádio Aquático Olímpico) was a temporary aquatics center in the Barra Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro.The venue hosted the swimming events, Synchronized swimming finals and water polo finals at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and the para-swimming events for the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
The Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre (Portuguese: Parque Aquático Maria Lenk) is an aquatics centre that is part of the City of Sports Complex in the Barra da Tijuca district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is part of the investments made by the city to host the swimming, synchronized swimming and diving competitions of the 2007 Pan American Games.
[10] The Water Polo pool (14x25x3 meters), installed during the Games just outside the Maria Lenk Aquatic Centre was to be moved to Manaus, where it would become a 50 meter pool. [11] Swimming Olympic Centre of Bahia, Salvador de Bahia, moved in April 2017 from the grounds of the 2016 Rio Olympics in Rio de Janeiro [11] Swimming Olympic Centre ...
Artistic swimming was long referred to as synchronized swimming until after the 2016 Rio Olympics, when the international governing body, World Aquatics, rebranded the name to artistic swimming in ...
FILE - Hungary's Katinka Hosszu waves after winning a semifinal of the women's 200-meter backstroke during the swimming competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016, in Rio de ...
Swimming Pool - Olimpisky: Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Water polo (final) Indoor pool: 13,000 [23] 1984 Los Angeles: Olympic Swim Stadium: Diving, Synchronized swimming: Outdoor pool: 16,500 [24] 1988 Seoul: Jamsil Indoor Swimming Pool: Diving, Modern pentathlon (swimming), Synchronized swimming, Water polo: Indoor pool: 8,000 [25 ...
Rio officials thought they had the mysteriously green water figured out, but the problem seems to be worse than anticipated. Rio officials closed the green diving pool Friday morning after the ...