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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?

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)