This is why many Olympic swimming pools are designed to be temporary solutions ... These are reflected at the edge of the pool and on the floor. This can create currents and whirlpools that ...

Al Bello/Getty Images Supported by By Jenny Vrentas Kate Douglass, a statistics graduate student and the second-fastest swimmer in the world this year in two Olympic swimming events, has always ...

Swimming is producing electric moments at the Paris Olympics ... of fast swimmers … and it's done in a pool that has gutters 360 degrees around the edge.” “For the ‘96 [Atlanta] Games ...

Some of these waves will propagate along the surface of the pool and be damped by gutters at the edge ... decade, swimming world records have been broken 43% more often than in Olympic track ...

“We can’t have that at the bottom of the pool,” swimming ... a perfect — Olympic, even — dive, scooping up the cap, which was a bit over 8 feet away from the pool’s edge.

After a quick swim to the edge of the pool, he pulled himself out – and allowed himself a wave to his new flock of adoring fans. “This situation is common at swimming competitions,” a Paris ...