Louisville Cardinals assistant coach Stephanie Juncker is with one of her athletes at a training camp in Rio de Janeiro, and has passed along some outstanding photos and videos of the 2016 Olympic swimming venue.
The pool is still under some pretty heavy construction, but is definitely taking shape with less than 200 days left until the opening ceremonies of the 2016 Games. You can check out a wide pan of the venue in this tweet from Juncker’s Twitter profile:
Touring the Olympic Pool exactly 200 days till the start of #Rio2016 @swimswamnews @SwimmingWorld pic.twitter.com/CXHpJnpZD6
— Stephanie Juncker (@stephjuncker) January 19, 2016
Juncker also passed along a picture of the inside of the swimming facility:
You can also check out some photo and video shots of the facility from the outside – the video especially helps give a scale for how large the structure is from the outside:
The outside of the Olympic Pool… Still quite a bit of construction going on… pic.twitter.com/2pgKzbAvEA
— Stephanie Juncker (@stephjuncker) January 19, 2016
And finally, this tweet shows a pretty cool look at how the Olympic village and the other Olympic facilities will be situated along the shore in Rio:
Cool look at the layout of the Olympic Village & Olympic Park situated around the water pic.twitter.com/A4IRb4jKRb
— Stephanie Juncker (@stephjuncker) January 19, 2016
The Olympic pool will likely be repurposed after the Olympic Games and used as a multi-sport arena, at least per reports from early in 2014.
Juncker is in Rio with Louisville alum Tanja Kylliainen, a Finnish national record-holder who is participating in a training camp with her home nation in Brazil. You can check out her Twitter page to catch any further photos or local updates.
Where will the water come from that is to be used in the pool and how will it be treated for [pathogens?
Will chorine or ozone technology be used to sanitize the swimming pools? And what company will provide service or systems?
Thank you!
Let’s hope the city of Rio can afford water and chemicals for the pool.
Speedoarenajaked,
the CITY of Rio de Janeiro is loaded with money.The State not(is loaded with debt).
It would be a real tragedy for that “detail” to fall through the cracks. Another “oops, sorry” of such magnitude would not be acceptable at any level.
Will all the snafus so far in Brazil, one ca only hope that the pool itself has already been measured & approved for world records by FINA. Isn’t it true that if it is even an inch too short, records cannot be sanctioned & ratified? Just thinking through the details…
You should be more informed about international swimming ! Swimming pool at OG and World’s it is in charge of Myrtha not the countries and will not be in Brazil that will be small or large. The WR will be broked, just train your athletes !