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Paris Olympics’ swimming pool is being called slow. How can a pool be slow or fast?

Even though the two temporary Olympic pools inside the La Défense Arena were constructed by Italian company Piscine Castiglione which built pools for the past Olympics, the depth for the Paris 2024 pool is much shallower, at 2.1 metres, making the water more turbulent which means more resistance and friction. The deeper the pool, the calmer the water. Experts also said that the plenty of recording equipment at the bottom of the pools leads to more turbulence.