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Aquatic Center Behind the Scenes

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I’m sure by now everyone has watched the swimming events on tv and have saw the main Competition pool. We will now take you on a tour of the aquatic center complex and where the real magic happens.  First stop is the mailbox and entry hall. Each coach has box where they put all of heat sheets, start lists, results, and any other information that we need to know. It’s important to keep on eye on the box to make sure your not missing something important. Next we have the training pool. This pool is a basic set up to be used by athletes not competing during the current meet session.  A downside is that we have to walk outside to get there. The warm up pool is where the real magic happens. It’s in this pool that athletes get their last bit of coaching and warm up till there coaches walk them to the check in / ready room. There are cold tubs, athletic training beds and media cameras all over the deck. This is probably one of my favorite place to be. Also as coaches spend a majority of the m
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Laundry

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Let’s face it…with how hot it has been for these games we all smell. But Tokyo 2020 has us covered with the Olympic laundry service.  We place our clothing into one of three bags. Whites, Colors, and underwear. When you either run out of clothes or need something washed you have it take to the laundry desk and get everything back 12 hours later. 
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Transport

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 So…how do we get from the village to the pool?  We start our journey at the Olympic village transport hub. Where they check our credentials and send us to the proper bus line.  Once on the bus we are sealed in via stickers on all the doors and windows to make sure no one in the outside had entered the bus in route. It takes us about 20 to 30 min to get to the pool. All of the roads are closed to traffic to help get us there as quickly as possible.  Along the route you see lots of locals waving and supporting the athletes.  Upon arrival the entire bus is searched on the outside to make sure all the stickers are intact and under the bus is checked as well by police and the military. As we get of the bus we must scan or credentials and face to make sure we are who we say we are. Go though metal detectors and bag bag screening along with having our temps checked. 
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Colleen’s National Record Swim

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  Photo Credit: Azuura Swim Club  Congratulations to Colleen Furgeson who set a personal best and Marshal  Island National record last night in the 100 Free! 
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Don’t jump on the bed

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 Seems like as kids we were always told not to jump on the bed. Maybe this is why. Phillip we jumped on the bed day 1 and put a small crack in the cardboard. Well that crack has gotten much bigger.
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Typhoon

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 Well the “typhoon” was not that bad. Had a windy rainy morning but it was some nice relief from the rain. 
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FOOD!

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Let’s face it….there is nothing more that  a swimmer loves best then food. Come join us as we eat in the Olympic Village Cafe.  First and foremost is the ever important hand sanitizer stations. You can’t enter any building or room without using hand sanitizer first.  Next stop is to drop or bags off at the baggage drop off stand as no bags are aloud into the dinning room. You guessed it more COVID safety procedures.  From here we check the dinning hall capacity screens to figure out where the least busy dinning hall floor is. And show our credentials to be let in.  Once inside we have to use hand sanitizer once again, put on gloves (there is always a backup at the gloves station as they are almost impossible to get on after using hand sanitizer) we then pick up our trays, silverware, and chopsticks .  We are now off to figure out what we are going to eat. The cafe has a bread station with breads around the world, fruit and salad station, Japanese Food (rice, sushi, chicken dishes, curr
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