Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Berlin, fill the pool! - You need more divers and swimmers!


Another European pool of sublime quality left to the sands of time. My gosh, what an asset! What a waste!

Here is an Alta Vista Babelfish translation: Eine andere europäische Lache der erhabenen Qualität verließ zu den Sanden der Zeit. Mein Mann, ein was für Anlagegut! Ein was für Abfall!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh - what a shame. Sure anything to do with 1936 is a touchy subject - but it's still the Olympic pool. I actually swam in the pool in the 80s - it still ok at that time.

Erik H

Tony Austin said...

What made me post the Berlin pool was that I got a DVD of Reni Riefenstahl's "Olympia" and there is a crazy clip in there of the breaststroke in that pool. Swimmers are doing a fly stroke with their heads out of the water and a breatstroke kick at the same time. (Now that would be a drill from hell.)

I wanted to see what the pool looks like today and apparently another grand European pool is decaying.

Hopefully it gets "re-branded" and rescued.