Dirtiest Secrets of Olympic Swimming Pool Water

“The World’s Best Sthletes…” ‘Shock’ at the Secrets of Olympic Swimming Pool Water [2024 Paris Olympics]

The Olympics' Dirtiest Secret Pool Water Revealed

WSJ "Swimmers Urinating Underwater Is Common" "Competition Swimsuits Make It Hard to Use the Restroom"

One of the basic rules to keep in mind at the swimming pool is, "You can't urinate in the water."

However, it has been reported that the world's best swimmers who have gathered to compete in the Olympics do not follow this rule. 카지노사이트 추천

On the 26th (local time), the American daily Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that "all swimmers who compete in the Olympics will urinate in the pool of the La Defense Arena in Paris where the competition will be held," and that "this is the 'dirtiest secret' of the Olympic Games."

Many athletes with actual Olympic experience have confessed to having “peeped” in a swimming pool.

Lily King (USA), a breaststroke gold medalist at the 2016 Rio Olympics and now competing in her third Olympics said, “I’ve probably peed in every pool I’ve competed in.

That’s just how it is.”

According to the WSJ, athletes don’t just urinate in the pool.

Katie Hope, who represented the United States in the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, once saw a teammate urinate on the floor while she was waiting next to her at the World Championships.

“It literally just ran down her leg and pooled on the floor,” Hope said.

“It might be gross to outsiders, but there’s so much chlorine in the water, you don’t really think about it.”

Swimmers typically wear tight-fitting swimsuits when they compete.

These help reduce drag in the water, but they’re so tight that they’re hard to put on and take off.

The problem is that they have to stay hydrated until right before the competition.

They have to drink water frequently and go to the bathroom frequently, and it takes up to 20 minutes to put on a competition swimsuit.

That's why, rather than wasting time and energy going to the bathroom and putting the swimsuit back on, "they often just put it on and solve it," according to officials.

There are "unspoken rules," such as not urinating when other people are nearby, although some swimmers do their chores at the same time, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Athletes assume that experts will regularly adjust the chlorine levels in the pool water, so they think they're fine, the outlet added.

Brian Spear, who was in charge of water quality management at the pool where the U.S. Olympic trials were held

Told the WSJ, "We constantly adjusted the pH and chlorine levels in the pool to keep the water clean for the 1,000 athletes who competed during the nine-day trials."