Hello and welcome to another edition of Truth or Fail - the official online game show of athletes everywhere. And speaking of athletes, we’ve all been watching a lot of swimmers this summer at the London Olympics, Michael Phelps in particular, and it’s hard to fathom how much time these people have actually spent in swimming pools over the last few years of their lives doing training. I mean, using a conservative figure of three hours per day of practice, that’s 1.5 months in a pool each year and all to compete in events that often come down to a hundredth of a second.

So between my Olympics viewing and my own trips to the awesome water park here is Missoula, Montana, and the fact that it’s August and I’m really frickin' hot, I think it is time for a cool, refreshing Truth of Fail about swimming pools. So put on your goggles people and don’t false start – It’s time for some trivia.

Round number one: Ancient Pools.

Fact number one: In 2010 archaeologists in Jerusalem uncovered a nearly 2000 year old roman pool built by the famed tenth legion where thousands of soldiers once bathed. The most awesome thing about this discovery is that the archaeologists believe that the pool included a rudimentary diving platform making it the earliest known diving board.

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Fact number two: You’ll find the remnants of what most archaeologists believe to be the first public water tank in Pakistan among the ruins of the Indus Valley Civilization. It’s called The Great Bath and it was believed to have been built in the third millennium BC.