If this were synchronized diving, would the other diver lose points when not going head first into the board? Uhhh... that was cru-hoo-el.
That has happened before to a guy who was HIV positive. He never told anyone but his blood was in the water. I forget the story, in fact, I'm not even sure if it was true or in America, but it has happened and it just occurred to me when I saw this and I thought I'd share.
I've never seen anyone nail an inward 2 1/2 Louganis on the springboard before ~ and the scores: 10, 10, 10, 10...
I remember when I was little, like 12, I used to do backflips off the diving board all the time. One day a lifeguard informed me that virtually every one of my backflips had my head coming an inch or two within hitting the board. I never actually hit it, but I quit doing backflips that day. That bang to the face must have hurt like 8 b****es on a b**** boat.
Same here..the time the life guard told me i was way to close to the board on my flips i gave up doing them and just stuck to canon balls and getting everyone wet...
Thats why i used to run out a little more to get some distance from the diving board but couldnt do a complete backward revolution so would do a bellyflop every time.
Was gonna say the same thing. I know at the Y if any kind of pathogen is released into the pool, be it blood or piss, the pool has to be shut down and cleaned.
Pathogens are disease carrying things. What diseases does urine contain? And as said before, how do they know if somebody does #1 in the pool?
There is no indicator, but the idea of having one is a pretty powerful deterrant for kids. http://www.snopes.com/science/poolpiss.htm
Urine is supposedly sterile. So I don't think it would carry anything other than anything it happens to pick up on its way out of the body. They don't know if anyone does #1 in the pool. But think about it: when you go swimming in any public pool, especially with young kids in that pool, do you really think there is no pee in there? Kids under the age of about 7 just do it habitually, and you never know when someone older might be too lazy to get out of the pool and try it. What's probably more of a health concern is anything that bleeds, like cuts or sores, or sick people who spit/ blow their nose into the pool. Of course, the pools have rules against it, but hardly anyone waits for every minor cut and scrape to heal before going swimming. We've all seen the used band-aids that occasionally make their way to the edges or bottom of the pool. Anyone want to go swimming?
