Olympic pools: Swimming pools for swimmers

Olympic pools: Swimming pools for swimmers - Unlike the pools we may have in our home is remarkable the presence of the Olympic-type, which are used for activities sports thanks to introduce regulatory measures that must be followed to the letter. As its name suggest arrives, Mayan pools are characterized by official size for the Games Olympic, being a monumental building compared to any type of pool we have seen earlier in our lives. Know what their features below.

The Olympic pools have about 8 lanes available for competition, which have a width of 2.5 meters so that the swimmer can have enough space to function, although it is recommended that the total width is of25 meters instead of 20 they should be, leaving a pair of unused extra lanes on each side. With regard to length, this should be about 50 meters, to which must be added a depth of only about 2 meters exactly. Such pools have the ability to support a maximum of 2,500 square meters usually.