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.
WOMEN’S 200 IM
The crowd went wild for hometown star Katinka Hosszu, swimming in lane 8 to set up the outside smoke. She led slightly at the halfway mark, then took off on breaststroke. Sydney Pickrem started to close the gap, but Hosszu left her in the dust on the final 50.
Katinka Hosszu dominated the women’s 200 IM, despite swimming out of lane 8. London’s Sydney Pickrem looked to challenge Hosszu over the first 100 meters, but couldn’t hang with the Iron Lady on the final 100. Hosszu’s new training will be put to the test later when she dives back in to swim the women’s 200 butterfly, a race that will in feature four of the same women as the IM, barring any last-minute changes by the coaches.
It is all fine and dandy but what happened to Tusup videos
They got pretty boring and redundant. We’ll do an update this week.
did you watch?
Who cares? They were all incredibly boring and the only thing anyone ever learned from them was that he wants to clean up his image.
Maybe after the Olympics, we’ll get the Tokyo Tsunami as a new ISL team. I bet Kitajima would be game for starting a franchise if he was asked.
I don’t think that would be an appropriate name. Prayers go out to all who were affected by the tragedy
They need to remove the Aussie swimmers from Roar and and start an Aussie/Asian Team. Secondly they could take the bottom two American teams and merge the best swimmers into one better team. The other option would be to assign dollars values to the swimmers and do a draft with a salary cap
They need an Australian team in the future for sure. It may coincide with opening up to Asian teams as well. Until then would be awesome to get the final held in Australia (as opposed to Vegas) in future years.
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Tokyo would be a great third conference.
You could add another Asian team instead of Brisbane or Sydney, but there really isn’t anywhere to put it.
Singapore or Hong Kong.
Making an Aust team is a bad idea . Can they not ever break out & escape & be with other people?
There’s only a single American outside of the American teams if I remember right.
Bentz in Iron.
There are Aussies in 7 of the 8 teams. I think
Didn’t get exactly what goal are you trying to achieve with your suggestions. Is it to make different type of prize money distribution or to give everybody equal opportunity or to make competition more exciting (is it problem with that?) or to make the life of leaders harder by restricting number of events they can compete at…
Seriously what is wrong now that you are trying to fix? Or maybe finally you want to create a system that promotes/stimulates/forces each swimmer of the league to perform at their best ability and to take the duty as the member of the league responsibly by focusing in training plans specifically for the ISL season. So far it looks more like a… Read more »
A couple of the teams are not competitive and they need to fix it. Most sports the winner of the match is in doubt beforehand but here it is not. I do think it’s an interesting question about making the teams based on nationality. Let’s see we could have two American teams. I think they do a team combining Australia and Brazil. A team with the rest ofAsia? I don’t think they get along well enough. Russia of course. Great Britain. Italy, Spain and France could be a team end then Germany and the scandanavian countries like Sweden could be a team. Hungary I don’t know where to put them, I guess with Sweden. That’s 8 right there. Then they… Read more »
It is not the British roar. It is London roar.
It’s a franchise based out of London
Surely
However. I like a predominately regional based competition. Whereby each team can have only a certain number or team members from outside the region. Like the epl and other such competitions.
Aussies would swim for Australia team but would also be free to swim elsewhere.
USA could be split up in day three or 4 regions. Europe similar. Although I can already sense the geographic boundary disputes.
I don’t mean to be parochial- but USA excluded , there are probably not many countries other than Australia that could field a competitive team with the current format.… Read more »
Maybe ISL will eventually encourage more the Energy Standard model – great training facility where the team train together and it include athletes from around the world but of the same team.
I know swimming is a bit different than soccer or baseball where athletes need to train together, but that is the best way to break up the regional or national boundary and provide teams the ability to recruit and build fan base.
An AUS team looks a wonderful idea …. until you start looking at the realities. Who’s going to bank-roll the team(s) ? Why have international meets like the Super Series collapsed ? Inability to retain/attract the corporate $$$. Also the overhead costs will be higher given the longer travel involved. Think it may be more realistic, post Tokyo, for there being a couple of Asian based/registered teams (HK/Sing/Tokyo ?) which may attract some AUS swimmers/see AUS as an ideal recruitment zone. Lets also remember that post Olympics we WILL see retirements which will inevitably cause “turnover” in various teams rosters. Might we also see at least one existing team “exit” which would see more swimmers “on the market” ?
If the product works there will be investment for an Australian team. Whether it be foreign or domestic. Also the Aussies are already travelling back and forth across the globe as is with the current 8 team format.
The costs are for those putting on the meet and/or the teams. A meet held in AUS would have the highest travel costs (that someone will have to bear). For major international sporting events in AUS (think AUS Open, F1/Moto GPs, Cycling World Champs/Tour Down Under/Great Ocean Road Race; the international bodies will want both secure corporate support plus underwriting by state governments. State govts have become more selective as to where they put any such funding with the key issue “does this product sell our city & state well internationally ?” An intl swimming meet realistically doesn’t stack up as well on that score in comparison. Case in point, Super Series where once the corporate $$$ bolted, state government… Read more »
An ISL meet in Sydney/Perth/Goald Coast could be good. Not everything in Melbourne/Phillip Island/Great Ocean Road. WRC was nearly the only highly rated international series which was held in/around Perth. And some years ago it moved to the east (Coffs Harbour).
I don’t think that travel costs are so high to pull Australia from a potentional list (I’ve been there three times). A race in Down Under and before/after it in Asia might be good for the future of ISL.
Although Katinka is putting on a brave face in this interview the math just isn’t on Team Iron’s side. You need to contort yourself to see a pathway for Iron to have a spot in Vegas because they need a first place finish over the 3 other Euro teams which isn’t out of the question, I guess, but also need ES or London Roar to lose to the Aqua Centurians. I can’t see the 2nd part of this happening.
Is Shane Tusup’s new female swim protege involved with The ISL? If so, which team?
If she isn’t, one of the teams should draft her ASAP. The fans would dig it!
She isn’t because she decided not to compete. I believe she was with the Aqua Centurions.
“Regrets Ive had a few but then again too few to mention “.. Not what she is singing this morning .as she sees 5 decades of holding that seat slip away . Lmao.
Just here to tally the Yozhik ratio.
Don’t you have anything better to do? I’m actually flattered by your attention. You are one of a few Swimswam.’s regulars ( I like this word for its ambiguity 😀 ) whose postings I don’t skip despite they are mean most of the time.
Hmmm, maybe because they are short… 😀
It is.
They might be the third best team, but they would need to win the next meet to have any chance to get through, and that seems very unlikely. And even if they did it might not be enough, they would probably need London or Energy Standard to perform poorly as well.
They might be the 4th best team, but only 2 euro teams can make it, and they aren’t beating London or Energy Standard.
Am tending to agree. Roar are clearly stronger across the board and it would appear to be the case with ES as well. They’re most likely unfortunate with regards to the structure of finals qualification and maybe this is something that can be finetuned in future IF this league evolves into a longer term proposition and potentially expands but, at this point, the business reality will require 2 of the finals teams being US based entities.
Off-topic, but I hope they’re planning to move the final around instead of just hosting it in Vegas repeatedly. Also hosting the final so close to Christmas could be a huge mistake.
Concur regarding both your points. Barring the next rounds proving a debacle, its likely we should at least a 2nd series. The question is whether all existing teams will remain viable propositions. Thinking longer term, I’m not sure 4 US based teams will be sustainable, even moreso than a 4th Euro/non-American based. Post Tokyo, will there be interest for at least one Asian based team ?
If team Iron makes to Las Vegas nobody will convince me that money aren’t involved. Swimming is such a thing that it so easy to perform lesser than expected without raising any suspicion.