Federica Pellegrini’s Aqua Centurions swim team of the International Swimming League (ISL) has taken another blow with the announcement by Gabriele Detti that he, too, would be withdrawing from the initial season of the league in 2019. This comes on the heels of the announcement of the same decision by Ilaria Cusinato last week.
Detti’s coach Stefano Morini said that the decision was made that Detti’s training does not align well with the ISL season, and that they are focused on Tokyo. Detti will be in a training camp at altitude in Livigno, Italy from October 6th-30th, which includes the majority of the ISL season.
This loss is also a significant hit to publicity in the Aqua Centurions’ home country of Italy: Detti is a very popular figure on social media, with 146,000 Instagram followers
The 25-year old Detti was the 2017 World Champion in the 800 free, and has also won back-to-back World Championship bronze medals in the 400 free (2017 & 2019). He enters 2020 as the defending Olympic bronze medalist in both the 400 and 1500 meter freestyles. He holds the Italian Records in both the short course and long course versions of the 400 free.
With Detti’s departure, the Aqua Centurions are down to 13 male swimmers and 14 female swimmers. Teams are allowed to bring 14 swimmers to each meet, with 2 of those being relay-only swimmers.
Aqua Centurions’ Most Up-to-Date Roster for the 2019 ISL Season:
| Men | Women |
| Apostolos Christou | Freya Anderson |
| Piero Codia | Ilaria Bianchi |
| Santo Condorelli | Georgia Bohl |
| Breno Correia | Elena Di LIddo |
| Laszlo Cseh | Silvia Di Pietro |
| Fabio Scozzoli | Franziska Hentke |
| Luca Dotto | Sarah Kohler |
| Kristian Gkolomeev | Kaylee McKeown |
| Philip Heintz | Lidon Munoz |
| Nicolo Martinenghi | Larissa Oliveira |
| Luiz Altamir Melo |
Margherita Panziera
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| Alessandro Miressi | |
| Simone Sabbioni | Matteo Rivolta |
| Alba Vazquez |
Anyone else surprised more studs aren’t bypassing the ISL this year to focus more on LC and their training?
The rumors circulating is that many “studs” will be skipping at least 1 meet of the season. So, for most swimmers, this will turn into 1, maybe 2 weekends of racing. Anybody who thinks that 4 days of racing in October is going to ruin their Olympics is overthinking it and setting themselves up for failure, in my opinion.
That being said, except the ambassadors, the money really isn’t THAT big either, so I don’t blame anyone for skipping.
It isn’t just the meets it is the travel to and from the competitions. I know that the teams going to Naples Meet are leaving right from Indy meet so that will be at least a 10 day block that training will be affected. Plus always worrying about how prepared they should be going into each competition is an emotional decision.
I agree that some studs will miss a competition but that really hurts the team aspects and filling out the lineups. The money is serious for the final in LV but you gotta win to get there!
Just a quick error correction: Detti is not the defending Olympic bronze medalist in the 800 because, well…you know. I assume it was meant to say 1500.
Very smart!
The ISL is going to be very underwhelming this year. No one of note is going to rest for any of these meets except MA.
I’m wondering if Missy was invited by any of the team or she wasn’t interested considering that that will only hurt her legacy or her application was rejected.
Based on some of the athletes that are being picked up, I’m confident that even a post-shoulder-surgery Missy would have been an upgrade for some teams. And that’s without regard for her star-power (which is still prodigious, mind you).
So there are some circumstances that preclude her participation in this pretty popular movement. Is she pregnant?
Dude…. do you think before you type?
Never
I don’t know that one way or the other. Whatever the circumstances are, they probably fall under the general umbrella of “because she didn’t want to.”
Not everybody has to want to swim competitively for their entire lives…I know that I sure didn’t…
She is getting married this weekend so between prepping and honeymoon, probably not a good idea!
Honestly she’ll prob be pregnant soon
If we thought her previous communications were enthusiastic , this announcement is going to be superlative . I am looking forward to it .
They still have Santoo!
Wish him the best of luck at Tokyo!