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09th Aug 2016

Everyone seems to think someone’s had a piss in the Rio Olympic diving pool

Oh dear...

Ben Kenyon

Okay, hands up, who’s pissed in the Olympic diving pool?

It might have been funny at school having a sly wee in the deep end, but this is the Olympic Games damn it. People are trying to do sport.

The pool appeared to be in pristine condition when Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow won their bronze medal in the 10m synchronised platform dive.

The pair were pictured celebrating in the azure blue water of the diving pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre.

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 08: Tom Daley and Daniel Goodfellow of Great Britain celebrate winning bronze in the Men's Diving Synchronised 10m Platform Final on Day 3 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Maria Lenk Aquatics Centre on August 8, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)

But the scene of their bronze medal success looks a lot different now compared to the neighbouring Olympic swimming pool where Jazz Carlin took silver in the swimming yesterday.

It began turning more and more green during Tuesday night’s women’s 10m platform final.

Tom Daley, whose medal took Britain’s tally up to four so far in Rio, stuck a picture up of the two pools side by side from the stands and we can see what he means.

He sounded pretty puzzled about why the water had turned from aqua blue to piss green…

BBC commentator Dan Walker pretty much said what everyone was thinking on Twitter…

And then the flood gates opened on the urine comments like a drunk taking a midnight leak against your back gate…

https://twitter.com/mrehab90/status/763092521111031808

https://twitter.com/SUGDENSDlNGLE/status/763089716199718913

And the rest…

https://twitter.com/dr_mario_XXX/status/763102770199089152

People started pointing fingers…

https://twitter.com/wh4tsthecr4ic/status/763097727316160512

https://twitter.com/mrsspanner/status/763090091032076289

But most of all people just genuinely felt for the Olympic divers having to throw themselves into the pissy green water below…

https://twitter.com/chanwhite98/status/763105524619546624

https://twitter.com/AreeCY/status/763102932631977984

Topics:

diving,Rio 2016