To celebrate the success of our magnificent 2016 Olympic Teams we’ve planned a trip to swim the waters of the Olympic Park Aquatics Centre on Saturday 29th October.
We will meet outside Brixton tube station at 10am, or you can meet us at the Centre’s main entrance at 11:15am. Peak swim ticket £5·20.
If you haven’t been it’s worth the trip. The Centre houses both a 50-metre swimming pool and a 25-metre diving pool and was one of the main venues of the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2012 Summer Paralympics. The centre was used for the swimming, diving and synchronised swimming events. After significant modification the centre opened to the public in March 2014.
The building was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid in 2004 before London won the bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics. Because the Centre was designed before the Olympic bid was completed, the spectator wings were not part of the original design and have now been removed.
Interestinly the pool’s floor can be moved to reduce the depth and there are also moveable booms that allow its size to be changed. The diving pool has platform boards at heights of 3m, 5m, 7.5m and 10m and three 3m springboards. For the television coverage of the Olympics, the pools were also equipped with innovative cameras in order to present the action from multiple angles.
Not sure if we will be breaking any world records, but maybe some PBs.
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