British Swimming's head coach Bill Furniss says Ponds Forge swimming pool is too fast Mark Foster acknowledges the crowd after his world record breaking 50-metre back in 2001 at Ponds Forge, Sheffield. THE Poms may have retained the Ashes thanks to a lot of water but now they have turned on the substance, saying it is producing poor swimming results. British Swimming's head coach says his team's swimming facility, Sheffield's Ponds Forge, is simply "too fast" for a pool. Bill Furniss made the comments after the Great Britain team won just one medal at the World Championships in Barcelona. "I'll be honest I don't want trials (at Ponds Forge)," he told BBC radio 5 Live. I would rather use slower pools, it's a fast pool. "I think as a selection venue in the future we will question that," he said. Stephen Parry, who won a bronze medal for the 200m butterfly at the Athens Olympics in 2004, said Ponds Forge was a victim of its own success. "It seems to have the perfect depth at Ponds Forge of three metres, because it's all to do with the resistance in the water," he said. Also, there is the consistency of the water. Because it's got ozone and oxygen in there it's very buoyant, so that allows people to swim faster as well. "All our swimmers who go there post really fast times," he said. They then can't replicate it later in the year, and they think that is working against them. Richard Apps, general manager at Ponds Forge, said he heard no complaints about the venue when the Great Britain team was posting world records during the 2004 and 2008 Olympic trials. Sheffield still is, and will always be, one of best places for swimming in the country. It has always been identified as a fast pool hence the number of British and World records set here," he said.