Quote ="ROBINSON"Even the old pool was a feckup by our wonderful council.
It was meant to be Olympic sized so they could use it for official competitions. Only the idiots who built it forgot to factor in that the pool had to be tiled, and as a result, once it WAS tiled, it was slightly too short.'"
It was long enough... but not quite wide enough to have the right amount of lanes. Thats what we where told when i worked at the old place.