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The Olympic pool is actually very clean, there appear to be people constantly cleaning it. I suspect a lot of this is due to it being a 'flagship' pool. The showers are crap though, pretty much falling apart already. Really bring the place down, feel like a proper afterthought.
I agree with your broad point though - British pool hygiene is dreadful. I went to Finland last summer and the public swimming pool I went to was utterly spotless. It was also massive, had various saunas, plunge pools and so on included. Nakedness also required of course - you basically carry your trunks with you when you go in, put them in a special storage thing on the wall, then when you want to use the pool you put them on because it's mixed.
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I would swim more if pools in Britain weren't so fucking disgustingly dirty.
One of the few things I admired about Sweden was the cleanliness of the leisure facilities-these people don't swim about in a soup of old plasters, hair, sanitary towels and piss... it made you happy to take your shoes off at the leisure centre entrance and pad about in your socks when the changing rooms and poolside wasn't grimey with mud and shite. And you can use the whole leisure centre for about a fiver off peak or seven quid after 5.
Pool hygiene in the UK is grim, that's why participation rates are declining.