Rio officials closed the green diving pool Friday morning after the water began to smell 'like a fart'
The situation at the Rio Olympic diving pool seems to have worsened instead of improved.
Just a few days after officials said they had the mysteriously green water figured out and would have it resolved, the pool was closed Friday.
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British diver Tom Daley seemed to give the first report of the diving pool closing, tweeting Friday morning:
Diving pool is closed this morning. Hopefully that means we haven't been diving in anything too bad the last couple of days! 😷😷😷
— Tom Daley (@TomDaley1994) August 12, 2016
USA diver Abby Johnston also noted that the pool was closed.
Show up for my warmup and without prior noticd they say the pool is closed this morning - #FixTheSwamp should start trending #rio2016
— Abby Johnston (@AbbyLJohnston) August 12, 2016
There seems to be a new development about the smell of the water.
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
Rio officials confirmed the closing:
Rio 2016 confirm diving pool closed this morning while they continue to sort out the water. One or two athletes had "itchy eyes". Erm..
— Owen Gibson (@owen_g) August 12, 2016
Rio officials said on Wednesday that the color change was caused by a chemical imbalance that changed the pH levels. They insisted that the water was safe to swim in and would return to its blue color Wednesday night.
Here was the pool as of Thursday:
Matt Dunham/AP
It looked like an improvement over this:
Matt Dunham/AP
But here's what the water should look like:
Matt Dunham/AP
It seems this problem is worse than expected.
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