Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Two inches of the Olympic Games

If at any time did use the term jumps in the pool, never before, Portsmouth authorities think that after building a water complex of five million pounds (six million or so) discovered, meter in hand, that the 'jewel in the crown', the pool described as 'Olympic', is two inches shorter (5.08 cm) from the official measure.

Invalidate the installation steps for a major international event. Not just Olympic, for which in any case would be used, but for higher level competitions, which had reported "at least he denounced the opposition huge profits to the town in the future. The importance of the two-inch stems from a technical aspect.

This difference of space precludes placing the touch-sensitive mechanisms that are used in all official events to mark time. Still, there is an error. It is true that local authorities 'sold' the place as "Olympic level", which literally is impracticable, but at least it will serve, as recorded by 'The Daily Mail', for training, amateur events and measure time with timers ...

in hand. The explanations do not appease the anger of the opposition: "It is a non-delivery and the cabinet should acknowledge and apologize to the city." "The way it was sold to us was that will host an Olympic team swimmers to the competition of the Games of 2012 [...] But now he says the pool is two inches too short for that and as a result the city loses millions of pounds of revenue, together with massive injections of cash grants.

Fans will love the pool, but the top athletes can not rely on themselves when someone is standing beside the pool by pressing a timer. " The pool was installed as part of an investment of 20 million pounds by the local government has an approval certificate from the Amateur Swimming Association and one of an international swimming.

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