Pura Loulé 2020 (POR)
- Friday, August 14th – Sunday, August 16th
- Open Swimming Pool, Pura Loulé, POR
- 50m (LCM)
- Start Lists/Live Results
A tri-battle of sorts is set to get underway next weekend in Pura Loulé, as the host nation of Portugal will take on visiting elite squads from Spain and Brazil. The competition marks the first for many athletes who have been in a racing drought due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The 3-day meet will be held without spectators, while the participating athlete count is limited to 80. Those spots filled up quickly, as Portgual is set to have 24 swimmers representing the nation, while Spain is sending 33 competitors and Brazil will comprise most of the remaining entries.
With the start lists now published, here are the key swimmers expected to race from each nation:
Brazil
- Viviane Jungblut
- Brandonn Almeida, Breno Correia, Felipa Franca da Silva, Felipe LIma, Fernando Scheffer, Gabriel da Silva Santos, Guilherme Guido, João Gomes Junior, Leonardo Santos, Marcelo Chierighini, Marco Ferreira Junior, Murilo Sartori, Pedro Spajari, Vinicius Lanza
Portugal
- Ana Catarina Monteiro, Ana Rodrigues, Ana Sousa, Camila Rebelo, Diana Durães, Francisca Martins, Inês Henriques, Rafaela Azevedo, Raquel Pereira, Rita Frischnecht, Victoria Kaminskaya
- Aléxis Santos, Bruno Ramos, Diogo Carvalho, Francisco Quintas, Francisco Santos, Gabriel Lopes, João Vital, João Costa, José Lopes, Miguel Nascimento, Tomás Veloso, Tomás Lopes
Spain
- Mireia Belmonte, Marina García, Paula Juste, Lidón Muñoz, Jimena Pérez, Jessica Vall, Alba Vásquez, Africa Zamorano, Marta Beesmans, Ainhoa Campabadal, Claudia Espinosa, Ángela Martinez, Paula Otero, Inés Sancho
- Joan Ballester, Moritz Berg, Álex Castejón, César Castro, Francisco Chacón, Miguel Durán, Albert Escrits, Hugo González, Manuel Martos, Joan Pons, Raúl Santiago, Juan Segura, Luis Domínguez, Nicolás García , Arbidel González, Marcos Martín,Alejandro Puebla
I love that range: 200 butterfly and 1500 free. Belmonte is tough as nails and makes every race exciting to watch
Because of the low Corona Virus numbers and strick measures implemented in Portugal, the IOC are thinking about Staging Tokyo2021 in Lisbon. The talk is in good progress. Most probably the Olympic Village will be in Parque da Bela Vista where the currently stage Rock in Rio Lisboa every two years.
Let’s wait and see what happens
There is not a snowball’s chance in a hot place that this would happen, or is even being seriously discussed, at any level of the IOC where it matters.
The odds of hosting the Olympic Games in a city and country that have never hosted them before with 9 months’ preparation is utterly unrealistic in every sense of the word, even a scaled back Olympic Games. At that point, the hurdles to hosting in Lisbon would still be far greater than the hurdles of hosting in Tokyo, regardless of testing numbers.
Ultimately, Tokyo will get its numbers under control in time for the Games. The bigger question is whether or not the rest of the world will get their numbers… Read more »
If you consider your and mine country specially.. We can say the answer is NO! At least with the 2 buffons we had elected..
Tokyo will need to test every athlete and ban the audience to keep it safe, which I see as the worst case scenario. Still better than canceling it
PORTUGAL!!
The place to be 🙂