Beijing, London, Rio and Tokyo. World Aquatics regulations require an Olympic-sized swimming pool to be 50 meters, or approximately 164 feet, long. This measurement is taken from end to end of ...

China's President Xi Jinping declares the Games open during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 4, 2022, in Beijing. Anthony Wallace/Pool Photo via AP The declaration was ...

To find out, we asked Fleming and other experts, including an Olympic pool builder. Some pools are simply faster than others — people still talk about the Beijing 2008 Olympics having a very ...

The pool is reportedly 2.15 meters deep, which is above the Olympic standards of 2 meters but below the World Aquatics minimum of 2.5 meters. But they could be much deeper – in the 2008 Beijing ...