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Olympic-sized swimming pool, used for Baku 2015 European Games. An Olympic-size swimming pool is a swimming pool which conforms to the regulations for length, breadth, and depth made by World Aquatics (formerly FINA) for swimming at the Summer Olympics and the swimming events at the World Aquatics Championships.
An Olympic-size swimming pool holds over 2 acre-feet of water For larger volumes of liquid, one measure commonly used in the media in many countries is the Olympic-size swimming pool. [47] A 50 m × 25 m (164 ft × 82 ft) Olympic swimming pool, built to the FR3 minimum depth of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would hold 2,500 m 3 (660,000 US gal).
Think of a "big Lego set for a pool" and 2 million gallons of water being pumped in from a fire hydrant on S. Capitol Avenue. 'Largest swim meet ever': How an Olympic swimming pool was built ...
For context, the volume of an Olympic-size swimming pool is 2,500 m 3 (88,000 cu ft). The average flow rate at the mouth of the Amazon is sufficient to fill more than 83 such pools each second. The estimated global total for all rivers is 1.2 × 10 6 m 3 /s (43 million cu ft/s), [1] of which the Amazon would be approximately 18%.
An honor: When USA Swimming took the Olympic trials to Omaha in 2008, they asked McDonald to be the meet director of those trials. She did such an amazing job, she was tagged to be meet director ...
At that point, the swollen French Broad was flowing at a rate of more than 240,000 gallons per second, enough to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool every 2.74 seconds.
Ponds Forge International Sports Centre, Sheffield, Yorkshire Ponds Forge International Sports Centre is a leisure complex in Sheffield, England.It has an Olympic-sized swimming pool with 2,600 seating capacity, a family and children's pools (50 m Competition pool and 25 metre diving pit), water slides amongst other facilities.
Olympic-sized pool of the Athens Olympic Aquatic Centre (c.1991, expanded c.2004), Athens Olympic Sports Complex, used in the 2004 Summer Olympics. There were complaints at the Olympics that the competition pool, outdoors, was too exposed to the hot sun; since then a roof has apparently enclosed the pool stadium.