School Sports DayAt some point in the distant past, someone at my school had built a large concrete tank behind the sheds and called it a swimming pool. Proud of this, they had a "Swimming Sports Day" in which everyone had to participate, even those who couldn't swim (they got to walk across the shallow end of the tank).
This would probably have been OK if the pool hadn't turned a deep opaque green the night before due to lack of maintainance. Even the school sports stars didn't want to go near the gloopy mess in the pool. We were practically pushed in. I'm sure some of the younger kids never surfaced again and the non-swimmers looked petrified.
Tell us your sports day horrors.
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chthonic, Thu 30 Mar 2006, 11:13)
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Interform swimmingNever seen a swimming pool at another school, but although ours was small, I think it was quite good.
Each year, we had to vote for captains for the various inter form activities throughout the year. Some of the lest competitively minded people in my class decided it would be a good laugh to vote for the only kid who couldnt swim, and was terrified of water. He won, didnt compete in any evens, and as expected, we did shit. The only event I remember us doing well in, was the wading event. For this we used our 6ft7 skinny giant, who was the only person who could get his legs out of the water, and promptly won by a country mile.
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