Ok - so we could host a max of 3 water-based teams (though I'd question whether any team would want to be out in Limerick).Originally Posted by paul_oshea
ye have seeded doubt in my mind, but when i was there DCU was being built as a 50 metre pool, unless they ran out of space halfway through then its still a 50m pool
..but maybe they did!!
Next sport then - what else do we have olympic standard facilities for ? This shouldn't last too long......
Bribery and corruption!
Honest! I am not a secret Tim nor a closet Sham - I really am a Seagull.
Very true. Maybe we could host the Zimbabwean or Russian teams and everyone could learn something new....
Had a long week & just a bit cynical with over-coverage by Sky News in particular. And yes i know i don't have to watch it... If London lost out i expected media corruption stories...
I think the Olympics is mainly politics but London actually had a lot of political disadvantages so did well to overcome.
Maybe London will reuse the facilities well but the usual history of the Olympics is for facilities used once & left to rot year afterwards.
TBH Makes no difference to me whether Paris or London. Its hard not to be cynical with the IOC as a few scapegoats don't end the corruption.
The pool in DCU only opened this year. Amid all the hype of paying some silly rates to go in I can't recall anyone saying it was a 50m which I figured I'd have heard around college.
I know someone with membership and I'll get her to confirm whether or not it is 50m.
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Actually we have NO Olympic standard swimming pools. To host an Olympics or a World or European Championships you need to have a warm-up pool in the same complex as the main pool (I'm not sure if the warm-up pool needs to be 50M or whether 25M will do). None of the 50M pools in the country have that.
There are 50M pools at the NAC and UL, and also a commercial one in Total Fitness in Fairview. I don't know about DCU.
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