2019 INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE: BUDAPEST
- Group B, Match 2
- Saturday, October 26 – Saturday, October 27, 2019
- 6:00-8:00 PM Local Time – UTC+2 (12:00-2:00 PM, U.S. Eastern Time)
- Duna Arena, Budapest, Hungary
- Short Course Meters (SCM) format
- ESPN3 Live Stream Links:
- Group B: Iron, LA Current, London Roar, New York Breakers
- Start Lists (pre-meet)
- Full day 1 results
- Full day 2 results
Reported by Torrey Hart/Jared Anderson.
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To no one’s surprise, London Roar’s Adam Peaty turned it on in the second 50 to control the race, his second individual win of his ISL debut. Kirill Prigoda and Felipe Lima were not far behind in the early lengths, but neither were able to get under :57. Michael Andrew was the final swimmer to get under 58 seconds. The race yielded big points for the London Roar, who finished first and third.
Adam Peaty showcased his signature super turnover to take the win in the men’s 100 breaststroke in 56.19. While Peaty is far and away the most dominant 100 breaststroke competitor in the Olympic venue, he is not considered the obvious favorite in the short course venues. Kirill Prigoda nabbed another 6 points for Roar with a 3rd-place finish, while LA’s Felipe Lima sandwiched himself between the two, securing 7 points for the Current, last weekend’s second-place team in their ISL debut in Dallas. Peaty’s time was nearly a full second faster than Lima’s, who hit in 57.04 ahead of Prigoda’s 57.29. The New York Breakers and Iron did not fare well in this race, placing 4th/6th and 5th/8th, respectively.
A Class act this Peaty , in and out
I agree it is exciting, and I hope this is the future. Is the current sponsor committed to beyond this year? What is the TV ratings like overseas or the streaming like here? Are any of the networks going to pick the ISL up with a sustainable contract. How much total ticket sales have the combined meets taken in. How much merchandise has been sold. If not, will the pro swimmers pay their own way and accept much less in contracts if this sponsor decides to contribute less each year or drop it. I’m a huge fan of all swimming (SCY, SCM, LCM). I just worry about the dollars and cents. Something sustainable has to be there for the investors… Read more »
I think this is going to be the future. I think the Olympics will always be the big attraction, but I think this is a much more sustainable model for the sport to grow and for people to keep following it. It’s better to give the athlete’s more chances for high level racing and a little more stable pay, as well as for us to see them swim lights out! Win-win!
I’m also beginning to think SCM might be the future. If it weren’t for Phelps holding out only for LCM swims and the Olympics (and not being nearly as good with SCY or SCM), there might have been more traction for short courses. Everyone loves NCAAs, and now our most marketable swimmers (Sjostrom, Dressel, Flo, Simone, Lily, Minna, Reagan, Peaty and many others) are just as good short course as long course. And our attention span is so short these days that holding out for a quad is just impractical. The Olympics for swimming and its importance for the sport were more born out of amateur athletics. Wouldn’t shock me if interest in short course ISL-type formats flourishes, and Olympics… Read more »
I really want a scm winter Olympics
A cut-up broadcast of the ISL was on last night. I forgot it was SCM for a minute. I saw 4 events in about 12 minutes. The team Duo lineups and points are interesting. Each team kinda had a signature; Iron did the bicep slap. I think…. the way you establish a sport as “team” is that there must be something during the event that needs to be adjusted. If everything is set and limited, like an NCAA meet, then it’s not really a tactical team event. Say, a visiting or losing team can choose some of the events that are used at points in the meet, and athletes have an unlimited amount of events to swim (managing ability versus… Read more »
I really liked the ISL events so far. Being from a country that has a (amateur) swim league already (Germany), I got it all… the team thing, the tactical aspect, the atmosphere, the athletes’ excitement.
Having said that, SCM is always just so… short. And so little actual swimming involved 🙁
Is it impossible to have ISL events in LCM? The 1st Bundesliga meets in Germany are LCM.
Will a second or two make that much of a difference in terms of audience attention?
It IS short. And you are right, it hardly can be called swimming stroke when a swimmer can spend up to 60% of the race under water. It can be of some entertainment for some people but LCM and SCM competitions are two different sports. Same as with volleyball and beach volleyball, speed skating and short track skating. I personally am not the fan of short version of traditional sports. There is one more important thing: long distance races look ugly in short pool. Even starting with 200m distance.
LCM will always be the real deal.
“Dolphins do not swim” —– Yozhik.
Your deep and remarkably wise revelation explained me suddenly the roots of this “times vs points” dilemma.
Designers of ISL faced same problems that World Cap has: the swimming is such an activity that a swimmer cannot be in good form for long period of time.
So should they organize one meet competition like FINA’s world championships or Olympic Games? No, they won’t win such competition against FINA. The best summer months are taken by FINA already and it will never gives it up. And making a serious competition some where in March or October? Who of serious swimmers will agree to peak twice in season? So this one meet design wasn’t good, because it will be seen… Read more »
The original plan was for the host team to decide the course – SCM or LCM. For whatever reason, that went by the wayside midway through the planning process. So, I think LCM is certainly a possibility down the road.