2020 INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE – MATCH 10
- Monday, November 9th: 10-12pm CET/3-5am U.S. Central
- Tuesday, November 10th: 10-12pm CET/3-5am U.S. Central
- Duna Arena – Budapest, Hungary
- Short Course Meters (SCM) Format
- 2020 ISL Scoring Format
- 2020 ISL Prize Money and Bonuses
- How To Watch
- Teams: Cali Condors/London Roar/LA Current/Aqua Centurions
World Record holder and Olympic gold medalist Adam Peaty has confirmed that he will not race in his team’s final regular season match. While he appears on the match’s marketing for the BBC television broadcast as the UK’s biggest swimming star, Peaty won’t actually race in the meet.
“Another day racing, I won’t be in the start lists but will be behind the team on the sideline,” Peaty said in his Instagram story, confirming the news.
Sources tell SwimSwam that this is more of an opportunity to rest their star breaststroker than connected to any kind of an injury.
Peaty is the 27th-ranked swimmer in the league so far this season in MVP scoring, though a big ‘skins’ output in Match #8 resulted in his best performance of the season yet. By virtue of winning that skins event, he finished 3rd in that event’s MVP scoring.
While start lists have not yet been revealed for Match #10 yet, several other superstars did not compete in Match #9 on the front end of Monday’s double header – including sprinters Florent Manaudou and Vlad Morozov. While the league has not yet confirmed how teams will be assigned to the different semi-finals, rumors are circulating that there will be a geography component to it in addition to a standings component. That could be disincentivizing teams from going full bore for these final rounds of the regular season, as placement in the league table might not make as big of a difference for where they wind up.
The semi-finals begin on Saturday of this week and run through Monday.
Honestly the last 2 matches were not needed to go the semi-finals, we already know the 8 teams and the fact that It is 2 days appart from the last match makes it tougher for the swimmers
Totally agreed, the schedule is not set to be fair for all teams
understatement for sure!
and also ENS “light” schedule is intriguing me, they only face Condors and Current once, and the rest of their matches are with the lower ranked teams…
Didn’t meet London at all.
load management strikes the ISL
I was wondering if someone would make that connection lol.
This schedule is pretty hellacious for some teams, 2 days rest between meets.
yeah, can’t blame them with london’s schedule
“2 days rest? That’s 2 days too many” – Gregg Troy
Not a very good schedule for some teams…
what’s the point of a 10-match regular season when the last ones don’t mean anything anyway? It’s more fun for the fans when everything comes down to the wire…
Only two teams are out in the 10-match prelim round. 4 teams will be out in the 2-match semi-final round. Doesn’t sound very reasonable to me.
London resting many guys.. Guido won´t swim the medley relay