Posted on 06/04/2024 9:00:08 AM PDT by DFG
The temporary pools came from northern Italy. The two million gallons of water came from a fire hydrant on South Capitol Ave., via 6,000 feet of piping that snakes through an NFL stadium. The swimmers will come from all over the United States, and step onstage near what’s usually the 45-yard line. And from June 15-23 in Indianapolis, they’ll take part in a grand, unprecedented experiment — all while trying to qualify for the Olympics.
It’s “crazy,” Bobby Finke, a 2021 gold medalist, said of the plan for this year’s U.S. Olympic swimming trials — crazy in a good way.
“It’s wild,” and “bananas,” USA Swimming chief commercial officer Shana Ferguson told Yahoo Sports last month as she surveyed the project from inside Lucas Oil Stadium.
The 70,000-seat home of the Indianapolis Colts, over the past month, has been transformed from a football field into the world’s biggest aquatic arena.
It’s a bold, grandiose ploy to expand the reach and scale of swimming, and its execution, Ferguson says, revolved around one core question: “How in the heck are we gonna put swimming pools in a football stadium?”
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Thank goodness it’s turf. I think that would be really hard on grass
https://www.stampedeblue.com/2023/10/12/23912330/colts-lucas-oil-stadium-turf-2024-season#:~:text=%E2%80%9C.%20.%20.%20Multiple%20teams%20use,grass%20will%20be%20a%20requirement.
How many guys will be competing against the girls?.................
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The Colosseum was filled with water to stage a full naval battle
Details are clearly visible.
Who ever heard of such a thing as a swimming pool in an NFL stadium?.......................Apparently not this writer.............
The Romans had sea battle re-enactments inside their flooded Colosseum.
Oh, old fashioned, eh? Research isn't necessary in a world with settled science.
“Oh, old fashioned, eh? “
I get your point...however, Absolutely I’m old fashioned and cherish the fact that I lived the 1st 40 years of my life before the digital age......so much better.
Which stadium had the dolphin?
The Orange Bowl, the first few years of the Miami Dolphins.
I’m thinking it’s not going to work.
Mark Spitz couldn’t parlay his medals into a career.
Summer Sanders did better, but I’m doubting that 70k would show up for Olympic swim trials.
Any opportunity to throw in a Stooges reference, I take, so you know how that is said about being old fashioned.
As much as I make my living in the tech world and I’m writing this on my phone, I share your feelings about the pre-digital age. I think a lot of the days when we’d put an album or cassette on the stereo in the living room, grab a cup of coffee, and spend a few hours in the newspaper and a magazine or two.
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