The length of the pool, where Olympians compete, turned out to be 2 inches shorter than the prescribed 50 meters. This was told by a sports writer Nikolai Yaremenko, who personally measured the pool with a tape measure.
“Measured the pool, he was shorter than 2 cm,” — said Yaremenko on radio “Komsomolskaya Pravda”. The journalist did the calculations and found that with the passage of distance swimmers save four hundredths of a second. “Two inches back, two back, and here you have eight hundredths!” — noted sports columnist.
At the moment, swimmers in Rio set six world records, reports Life.ru. Among men distinguished Briton Adam Peaty in the 100m breaststroke (improving the record by 0.37 and 0.42), women — Katinka Hosszu in the 400-Petrovka complex (an improvement of 2.07), team Australia in the relay 4×100 m freestyle (improvement of 0.33), Sweden’s Sarah Shostrom in the 100m butterfly (improvement of 0.16) and American Katie Ledecky in the 400-metrovke freestyle (an improvement of 1.51). However, as the newspaper notes, with such indicators, even if the calculation Yaremenko was true, then the Olympians would have set these records.
