Talk:Olympic-size swimming pool

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Everything in the article is fine, see: http://www.fina.org/rules/FR/rules_fr3.htm, except for the photo. Obviously it is not an olympic size pool (it is not wide enough).

Jacek

I've taken the photo out -- the pool in the picture is indeed only 6 lanes (15 metres or so) wide rather than the required 8+2 empty widths (25 metres). A photo of an actual Olympic size pool would be an excellent addition, if someone can find/make one. -- Jonel | Speak 03:13, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

how deep?

• I second that question. There is no standard depth? Kingturtle 23:38, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Is my conversion wrong or is there more room for at least one maybe two more lanes?

one also wonders what the volume might be. Odd, that they would care about how much light was being shone on the pool, but not care how deep or voluminous the water was. O.o -Kasreyn is there a semi olympic pool standard?

Whoever wrote this can't do the sums. According to Fina (FR 3 SWIMMING POOLS FOR OLYMPIC GAMES AND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS) the recommended depth is 2m minimum, 3m preferred. An Olympic pool is 50m in length, 25m in width and with 2m depth that's 2,500 cubic metres in volume, at 3m depth that's 3750 cubic metres. Kasreyn's comment is irrelevant since actual volume is not relevant for the event, the sport it is about the length and athlete swims, not the volume through which they swim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.210.226.166 (talk) 04:53, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Volume

Since the OSP seems to be the standard unit of measurement for large volumes of water (well, at least in analogies), we should be careful about what volume we give (and this page features prominently in Google!). Going by this link, there seems to be no consensus—I guess it depends on the depth of the pool. Adrian J. Hunter 02:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Heh. That author seems to have spoken with some water companies that don't know what they're talking about. Olympic pools must be at minimum 50 metres long, 25 metres wide, and 2 metres deep. That's 2,500 cubic metres (i.e., 2,500,000 litres). Any pool with only 1 million litres in it is far too small for Olympic swimming. Bigger than 2.5 million litres is possible, usually with pools that are deeper in places or throughout. 3.3 million litres would correspond to an average depth of 2.64 metres. -- Jonel | Speak 02:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Jonel. I hadn't thought to just calculate it myself, and what you've written makes perfect sense. Weird, though, how often 1 OSP = 1,000,000 litres appears on the 'net... I guess someone, somewhere stated that as an approximation, and others have since taken it literally. -- Adrian J. Hunter 03:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Just a thought from a reader...do the examples of volume really help a person understand how large an Olympic pool is? Personally I'm not more familiar with how large 10,000m3 of waste is than I am with 2500m3. I'm not sure what the point of that whole section is, other than 'gross lots of trash'- not the place for a commentary on the amount of trash that the UK produces. --98.201.142.10 (talk) 17:56, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I agree. I think this section was added in response to a {{citation needed}} tag added by an IP to the claim that an OSP is often used as a measure of volume ([1]). But the tag was frivolous – a quick Google search readily confirms the claim. The only comparisons that might be helpful for appreciating the volumes involved are uncited, so I'm going to remove the whole section. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 13:28, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Explanation of reversion on 10 April 2007

I undid this uncommented edit by an anonymous editor, who changed the minimum depth to 1 m. The rules for olympic standard pools can be found following the link in the external links section of this page. Section 1 of the rules state that FINA Olympic Standard Pools must meet the requirements given in Section 3; these differ from the requirements given in Section 2, which are for Fina Minimum Standard Pools. –Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 10:14, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Chlorination?

Are the pools required to be chlorinated (or not) for Olympic events? Abductive (talk) 11:19, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I couldn't see anything about chlorination on the official FINA website (linked in the article), although I'm sure most countries would have their own regulations that public pools would need to comply with. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 12:42, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

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News article usage

The volume of such a pool is heard often on American television as a presentation of the size of a flood within an enclosed area, say. It appears to be an easy way for journalists to convert from a metric original size. But also, a competitive expression is the "acre-foot", especially for floods but also for water-use needs of farmland and droughts. Now 2500 square meters is about two acre-feet ; I think that the equivalent in acre-feet belongs in the nominal measurement slot on the Olympic-size swimming pool webpage. 173.162.253.101 (talk) 17:40, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, this was mentioned but not clearly. I made a new section. (PS You mean '2500 cubic meters is about two acre-feet') Gap9551 (talk) 19:21, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Sorry but I've removed the new section. It's misleading to say an Olympic swimming pool volume is "defined as 1 million liters", as the cited source ([2]) is not defining anything, but just listing examples of various volumes that might be familiar to an ordinary person. The correct volume is already explained in the lead. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 07:44, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

You're right that the source doesn't really define the unit of measurement but merely gives an example, thanks for pointing that out. Considering that, I agree that the section is better left out. Either way, the section didn't say that the pool volume was defined that way, only the unit. Gap9551 (talk) 15:21, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

Length of Pool

The opening of this entry states "An Olympic-size swimming pool is the type of swimming pool used in the Olympic Games, where the race course is 100 m in length. This is typically referred to as "long course", distinguishing it from "short course" which applies to competitions in pools that are 50 m in length." This seems to sloppily conflate the length of the race course (up and back) and the length of the pool. Olympic, long-course pools are 50m long. Short-course pools are 25m long. It would be more clear if mentions of long- and short-course stuck to the length of the pool. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.0.90.16 (talk) 01:44, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Thanks 50.0.90.16. The 100 m came from a recent vandal edit, which I've since repaired. The problem with saying an olympic pool is 50 m long is that most are actually slightly longer to accommodate the thickness of the touch pads at either end. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 13:27, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Should the sentence "This is typically referred to as "long course", distinguishing it from "short course" which applies to competitions in pools that are 25 metres (82.0 ft) in length." be changed to reflect the same nomenclature? (And note that the Short Course page also uses pool length) 50.0.90.16 (talk) 04:43, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

History of Pool

Have all Olympic pools, even way back, always been "Olympic sized pools"? Were any historical Olympic swimming records set in "non-Olympic size pools"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:C58E:90D0:D09D:A6C8:810B:F2BE (talk) 00:17, 20 October 2017 (UTC)