Changing room chat: Boris is barmy about the baths

IT'S not the first time London mayor Boris Johnson has gone a bit overboard and he hyperbole was flowing yesterday at the unveiling of the Olympic aquatics centre.

Johnson gushed: "I had no idea it was going to be so beautiful. It is an architectural poem, a seamless wave of beauty. And look at that water. It looks good enough to drink, it is gin-clear. If you dive to the bottom you won't find any fluff and the normal sort of stuff you find in a municipal pool - an old pair of goggles and a Band Aid."