Why are the Olympic divers/swimmers taking showers or rinsing off after they get out of the water?

Question

I noticed swimmers rinse off n a shower after they get out of the water. Also, some are getting into hot tubs.

Cold one resting on this!

Answer 1

Divers shower in between each dive to keep their muscles warm after getting out of the pool. The temperature of the pool water and the air are usually different (the pool is usually around 80 degrees, with the air temperature between 68 and 72 degrees). This difference can cause muscle tightness. To combat this, divers warm up in either the showers or a hot tub.

Answer 2

Because there chlorine in the pool water, duh.

Answer 3

It is all about hygiene and etiquette....when you share a pool it is common practice in any sport to clean yourself (i.e. shower) before you enter the water....also once you have exited the pool many shower in between dives because they sit in the hottub...

Answer 4

because they want to idk  and idc

Answer 5

The mystery of the showering divers

By Chris Chase

Over the last three nights, NBC has led its primetime Olympic coverage with synchronized diving. According to the stacks of letters that have poured into the Fourth-Place Medal Investigative Unit Headquarters, you've all been watching but are baffled by one facet of the competition. In that case, you're in the right place. After successful forays into the cases of Cullen Jones' disappearance and the identity of the hot Paraguayan, Fourth-Place Medal will today tackle the mystery of the showering divers.

After completing a dive, competitors swim to a ladder, climb out of the pool and head immediately to a bank of showers that sit adjacent to the diving boards. Then, in full view of the crowd and NBC cameras, they shower off. Divers keep their suits on, of course, usually appearing only to rinse off their hair and arms. Oftentimes, the divers will receive their scores while still showering off. What's the purpose of this?

Theories have ranged from 'to get the chlorine off' to 'they want to have fun' -- seriously, that last one is a direct quote from NBC's diving analyst, Cynthia Potter. Neither are the reason.

Divers shower in between each dive to keep their muscles warm after getting out of the pool. The temperature of the pool water and the air are usually different (the pool is usually around 80 degrees, with the air temperature between 68 and 72 degrees). This difference can cause muscle tightness. To combat this, divers warm up in either the showers or a hot tub.

Mystery: solved. (Although we're still a bit unclear as to why the showers are out in the open.The water cube cost over $200 million to build. They couldn't have put a privacy wall in?!)

-----Article from yahoo sports

Answer 6

They shower to rinse off the chlorine chemicals on their bodies. Many people do this at public pools, too...that's why public pools have showers.

They get into hot tubs for the same reason football or basketball or any other athlete does...it's therapy for their aching muscles. Heat relaxes muscles.

Answer 7

They are too wet, so cool down, wash up & dry out for the next round.

Answer 8

because the water is cold so they have to go warm up or their muscles will sease up???