2020 INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE – MATCH 8
- Thursday, November 5: 4pm-6pm CET/9am-11am U.S. Central
- Friday, November 6: 4pm-6pm CET/9am-11am U.S. Central
- Duna Arena – Budapest, Hungary
- Short Course Meters (SCM) format
- ISL Technical Handbook
- 2020 ISL Scoring Format
- 2020 ISL Prize Money and Bonuses
- How To Watch
- Omega Results
- Teams: London Roar, Tokyo Frog Kings, Cali Condors, New York Breakers
- Full Results
Reported by Retta Race.
WOMEN’S 50 BREAST SKINS
ROUND 1: King (CAC), Atkinson (LON), Aoki (TOK), Lazor (LON) move on
King took care of business with a solid win here, but it wasn’t a great showing for Cali. King was just 29.7 – she was 29.1 in the opening round of skins in Cali’s first meet. And Hannis, who was second to King in the skin week 1 and who almost beat King in the 50 breast yesterday, missed the cut and is out.
London got two into the second round, including world record-holder Alia Atkinson.
Tokyo’s Reona Aoki also made her second skins semifinal.
ROUND 2: Lilly King (CAC) & Alia Atkinson (LON) move on
As expected, it’ll be King and Atkinson to the final. Each was undefeated in their ISL careers in the 50 breast coming into this meet. King has won all three 50 breaststrokes between the two this match. So far, though, King’s times have been a bit off and she hasn’t pulled the kind of jackpots she could potentially pull. But with both King and Atkinson among the best to ever swim a 50 breast, both are probably making sure they have something in the tank for the final.
ROUND 3: Lilly King (CAC) wins the skins
In hindsight, both athletes were definitely saving their best stuff for the final. King went seven-tenths faster in this final than she did in either of the opening rounds, and Atkinson was four-tenths faster with her first sub-30 swim of the skins.
This was definitely a strategic showdown between the two, with both taking advantage of a thin field to save up for a huge finals showdown.
In fact, King was faster here than she was in winning the individual 50 breast yesterday (29.20).
It’s not exactly like Townley is a man of many words, so not exactly a surprise it was hard to put into words.
I reckon if someone asked King to put into words how great she is she’d have no such trouble.
She reminds me of MJs mentality, it’s probably why she’s so good.
She’s a great kid. You should see her in the community interacting with people at charity events and talking to groups of kids at schools and swim teams. A1 first class.
She’s a 23 year old woman, ffs.
In the beginning, God created Bloomington, Indiana. In the middle of this charming town, he put Indiana University. God said, “this is beautiful and good.” He then blessed IU with a swim team
and said, “this program will achieve greatness and I will always be with them.” God gave IU a
legendary “Doc” as a swim coach and a man that swam faster than people run by the name of
“Spitz”. Spitz would move the heavens and the earth in a town called “Munich” and conquer the
world seven times in one place and one period. IU attained championship glory and was
dominant and God said, “this is very good!” Unfortunately, IU would later take… Read more »
…. what…. did i just read
Me too, & I WENT to IU Bloomington in the Doc era.
Damn
okay 10/10 for creativity
You need a twitter page or something… actually kind of entertaining
STOP. your posts are getting ridiculous.
Bobo Gigi is still the #1 commenter probably.
I miss him, hope he’s okay
He hasn’t recovered from realizing that Dressel swimming sprint breaststroke in a bath tub in college didn’t ruin him. Or that U.S. women (hello, Simone) not emulating Cate Campbell’s training didn’t exactly doom them to failure.
This should be its own article. Op-Ed of course, but like. Dang.
That effort tho
Anyone else have sudden motivation to make it on that list
Guerra strikes again!
I thought it was running out of steam but then “a genius film expert with limited lung capacity” made me laugh out loud.
“They were doomed when, led by Guerra, they ignored Pestilence, the First Horseman of the Apocalypse, and practiced herd immunity. Soon they were visited by Famine, War, and Transfers.”
I would die for both of them
Surprisingly, I really quite like her. She is awesome ( and I’m not from the USA).