Check out the World Aquatic championships website at
http://www.melbourne2007.com.au/default.aspx?s=home
They've done a fine job of providing info about Susie O'Neill pool construction and about water reuse. Both interesting for the aquatics fan. The "temporary" pool is now in vogue, and destined to be a feature of future World championships because of cost of building a 50m pool, and subsequently maintaining it.
We are hopeful that in Kingston a 50m pool will be built in the near future. It is desperately needed in this part of Ontario, and will be put to many, many uses by citizens as well as competitive swimmers, synchro swimmers, water polo players, and I hope, divers. To build a pool without 10m tower capacity in this day and age, would be a great mistake. Sort of like the mistake that the city has made in the now-being-built sport and entertainment centre, which has been "shoe-horned" (a fine phrase coined by former Councillor Beth Pater) into a site that is far too small. Consequently, many features (and size) that are essential for top-of-the-line events have been deleted from initial plans. But all that is another story for another day.....
Canada's duet placed 5th in prelim technical event. Scores are well-below the leading Russian duet, and a stretch from the 4th place Chinese duet. Here's looking for better scores in the next event.
No comments:
Post a Comment