Timetable at 2016 SwimCup Eindhoven Follows Rio Late-Night Schedule

by Daniela Kapser 7

March 14th, 2016 Europe, International, News

 

Pieter van den Hoogenband swim arena, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Pieter van den Hoogenband swim arena, Eindhoven, Netherlands

 

The 2016 edition of the SwimCup Eindhoven, Netherlands, to be held from 6 to 10 April, is an Olympic qualification event and also the competition schedule has been set follwing the Rio timetable for the swimmers this summer:

Heats will start at 12.00 pm, B-finals at 7 pm and A-finals at 9 pm. In the last years, the field in Eindhoven in the great Pieter van den Hoogenband swim arena was stacked with international swim stars. In 2015 the audience saw Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Femke Heemskerk, Inge Dekker from the Netherlands, Sarah Sjoestroem and Michelle Coleman (Sweden), Zsuszanna Jakabos and Laszlo Cseh (Hungary), Cameron van der Burgh (South Africa) and Velimir Stjepanovic (Serbia) with very good performances.

In Rio, heats will start at 12.00 pm, finals at 10 pm. The SwimCup Eindhoven offers with a great facility and atmosphere a possibility to compete under the unusual Olympic schedule.

 

SwimCup Eindhoven 2015

SwimCup Eindhoven 2015

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Jerry
8 years ago

Could be worse if you still get to watch it live! On the west coast of USA, we end up watching it tape delayed on NBC so we can see it in our “prime time.” Thus, the results and social media are available 3 hours before we get to see it! This was even true when the Olympics were in Vancouver. (We try to get a Canadian feed instead!)

Gopher
8 years ago

It will be interesting to see how swimmers perform – should give a good indication on whether Rio’s late finals are going to have a huge impact on times.

Coach Mike 1952
Reply to  Gopher
8 years ago

Agree again – it will be very interesting – & actually vital to both the swimmers as well as the sport in general – to find out how various swimmers from various countries react to the insane time changes. Now is not too early to start gauging that.

bobo gigi
8 years ago

Olympic finals at 10 PM. I can’t still believe it.
Shameful!

Coach Mike 1952
Reply to  bobo gigi
8 years ago

Agree wholeheartedly. Allowing one country’s vested media interests to control an entire Olympics is a new low. Maybe the IOC could use the NBC money they get to underwrite the Brazilian effort since Brazil is having such an enormously difficult time (we don’t need to go there on that topic, do we?).

Brad Flood
Reply to  Coach Mike 1952
8 years ago

It’s nothing new to the Olympics, if you recall Beijing, where they didn’t just move the start times back to suit the US TV audience, they completely flip flopped Trials & Finals around, holding Finals at 9:00am (or some ridiculous hour of the morning), just so we here in the US could watch them “Live”.

However, as is almost always the case, the swimmers overcame these “less than perfect” conditions and performed pretty danged well! Just makes one wonder if our notions of the “perfect conditions” are based on fact, science and truth or merely “anecdotal”?

Charlie
Reply to  Brad Flood
8 years ago

That’s the thing. I was outraged before Seoul, but once the world records started falling I got over it. And, having enjoyed swimming races as a kid or teen at regional invitationals as late as 9 or 10 p.m., I just think the whining about late night schedules for world class athletes and audiences in Rio — a late night city if there ever was one — verges on silly.