Diver on the Green Olympic Pool: "The Whole Building Smells Like a Fart"
According to Tom Steinfort, a reporter covering the Olympic games in Rio, a German diver said, the "the whole building smells like a fart" because of the pool. This is disgusting, but also funny?
The Olympic diving pool has been closed again because of water quality issues...a German diver says "the whole building smells like a fart"
- Tom Steinfort (@tomsteinfort) August 12, 2016
Yarg.
According to The Associated Press, Rio officials said they're not sure how the "proliferation of algea" was able to grow in the diving pool. That the Olympic pools changed color from blue to green was because of the heat and lack of wind, officials said at first. However, some experts say it's because of chemical imbalances in the pool - and by gallons of hydrogen peroxide "mistakenly" poured into the pool at one point, one Olympic source told The Wall Street Journal.
"We first learned that chemistry is not an exact science," Rio 2016 spokesman Mario Andrada explained to the AP. This is a very funny quote. Perhaps the most disturbing part? Underwater cameras have apparently captured "amoebae-like shapes" in the water, according to the AP. BRB, going to take a ten hour shower and then never enter a pool again. (I might be dramatic, but I don't smell like a fart, so you do the math!) (Don't do the math, just stay out of the water.)
Update 8/13 5:00 p.m.: The pool has gotten so disgusting that officials have given up trying to clean it. It will be drained tonight refilled with nearly 1 million gallons of clean water from a practice pool.
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