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  2. Olympic-size swimming pool - Wikipedia

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    Olympic-sized swimming pool, used for Baku 2015 European Games. An Olympic-size swimming pool is a swimming pool which conforms to the regulations for length, breadth, and depth made by World Aquatics (formerly FINA) for swimming at the Summer Olympics and the swimming events at the World Aquatics Championships.

  3. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    An Olympic-size swimming pool holds over 2 acre-feet of water For larger volumes of liquid, one measure commonly used in the media in many countries is the Olympic-size swimming pool. [47] A 50 m × 25 m (164 ft × 82 ft) Olympic swimming pool, built to the FR3 minimum depth of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would hold 2,500 m 3 (660,000 US gal).

  4. 'Largest swim meet ever': How an Olympic swimming pool was ...

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    Think of a "big Lego set for a pool" and 2 million gallons of water being pumped in from a fire hydrant on S. Capitol Avenue. 'Largest swim meet ever': How an Olympic swimming pool was built ...

  5. Orders of magnitude (volume) - Wikipedia

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    Volume of an Olympic size swimming pool of minimal depth (50 m × 25 m × 2 m). 3.054 × 10 3: Volume of each of the nine spheres of the Atomium in Brussels 1.13 × 10 4: Gas volume in the first zeppelin LZ 1: 1.1866 × 10 4: Amount of concrete in Trbovlje Chimney: 1.56 × 10 4: Quebec's 2001 output of maple syrup: 5.0 × 10 4: Typical volume ...

  6. Blood, sweat and 2M gallons of water: The women behind ... - AOL

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    An honor: When USA Swimming took the Olympic trials to Omaha in 2008, they asked McDonald to be the meet director of those trials. She did such an amazing job, she was tagged to be meet director ...

  7. List of largest swimming pools - Wikipedia

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    Swimming pool Country City Opened Notes Coordinates Marina Bay Sands Singapore: Downtown Core: 2010 World's highest and longest rooftop infinity pool at 200 metres (650 feet) high [31] and 150 metres (490 feet) long [32: Deep Dive Dubai

  8. No world records have been set at the Olympic pool. Is it too ...

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    Going forward, World Aquatics has mandated a minimum depth of 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) for swimming and water polo events, such as the portable pool that will be installed inside SoFi Stadium for the ...

  9. Swimming pool - Wikipedia

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    An Olympic-size swimming pool (first used at the 1924 Olympics) is a pool that meets FINA's additional standards for the Olympic Games and for world championship events. It must be 50 by 25 m (164 by 82 ft) wide, divided into eight lanes of 2.5 m (8.2 ft) each, plus two areas of 2.5 m (8.2 ft) at each side of the pool.