POOR pool plans landed the council in the deep end after proposals left Olympic hopefuls unimpressed.

A new Dagenham swimming pool, proposed for completion in 2010, will cost a whopping £16 million, but would still fall way short of Olympic standards.

The pool would be smaller than the recently shut 33metre Althorne Way swimming facility.

Part of the council's leisure regeneration aim, is to improve facilities to meet Olympic standards, but Olympic swimmers must train and compete in 50m pools - double what the council have proposed. ...more ---> ...

| olympic news | 4 September 2006; 5:54:30 PM |# | | Discuss |

SUSAN Halter swam in the 1948 Olympics aged just 19 - and nearly 60 years later is still picking up medals for her excellence in the sport.

Mrs Halter, who swims at Park Road Pool, has just returned from the World Masters Swimming Championships in San Francisco, from where she returned home with four medals. ...more ---> ...

| London Borough of Harringay | 4 September 2006; 5:50:23 PM |# | | Discuss |