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By David Rieder.<\/em><\/p>\n

At the most recent stop of the World Cup circuit in Doha, Katinka Hosszu<\/strong> finished first in nine out of 17 women\u2019s events, giving her 200 career World Cup gold medals<\/a>. Sounds impressive\u2014until you remember that only six\u00a0out of\u00a0<\/b>58 individual Olympic medalists from Rio even showed up in Doha.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorld\u201d Cup? Not even close.<\/p>\n

This series is not a marquee event like the soccer’s World Cup. \u00a0It\u2019s not even on the level of\u00a0the World Cup of Hockey\u2014the international tournament\u00a0the National Hockey League put on last month in lieu of sending its players to the Olympics.<\/p>\n

No, the FINA World Cup is a series of two-day short course meter events spread throughout the months of August, September and October while most of the world\u2019s top swimmers are either on break or back home ramping up their training cycles. So few top competitors show up that Hosszu has been able to win more than one million dollars in prize money from World Cup competitions alone.<\/p>\n

Yawn.<\/p>\n

Year after year, the World Cup meets remain largely noncompetitive. The 2016 season has included exciting showdowns between Alia Atkinson<\/strong>, Yulia Efimova<\/strong> and Katie Meili<\/strong> in the sprint breaststrokes. But far more races have been downright lackluster\u2014like the one where eighth place finished\u00a033 seconds behind the winner<\/a>, or this one, with four total competitors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why FINA puts such high value on this diluted series in its\u00a0annual selection of World Swimmers of the Year continues to miff the swimming community, let alone so much money.<\/p>\n

The international attendance at the first cluster of meets in Europe this year was adequate, but hardly anyone showed up at second cluster of meets in Beijing, Dubai and Doha. No Canadians made the trip, and no Britons, either. China had the likes of Lu Ying<\/strong> and Xu Jiayu<\/strong> in attendance, but at the Beijing meet only.<\/p>\n

Among Australians, Brittany Elmslie<\/strong>, Madeline Groves<\/strong> and Bobby Hurley<\/strong> competed in the last three meets. Top-flight Americans included Meili, Breeja Larson<\/strong> and Josh Prenot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Prenot travelled to the World Cup for the first time this year, simply because the circumstances allowed\u2014he was not in school, and he earned funding to do so. Swimming in each of the second cluster of meets, Prenot said that he thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to travel around the world and compete.<\/p>\n

\u201cGetting lots of race experience helps you become a better athlete, and racing in cool locations is probably the most fun way to accomplish that,\u201d he said in an email.<\/p>\n

A unique opportunity to gain racing experience, and credit to Prenot for jumping on the chance. But you might still be getting the sense this event is, despite the name, not so marquee.<\/p>\n

Try this one: do you know what Katie Ledecky<\/strong>, Adam Peaty<\/strong>, Ryan Murphy<\/strong>, Lilly King<\/strong> and Kosuke Hagino<\/strong> have in common? All individual Olympic gold medalists from Rio, yes. There\u2019s also the fact that none have ever competed in a single World Cup meet.<\/p>\n

When asked in an interview with SwimVortex\u2019s Craig Lord<\/strong> if he would consider doing World Cup meets, Peaty responded that he had no interest.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no World Cups, and we had an option for the World Short Course [Championships], and I said no to that,” Peaty said. “No one cares about short course in Britain. There\u2019s no coverage of it and what people want to know about is the Olympic Games and the World Long Course Championships.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently, the sentiments are fairly widespread. USA Swimming hosted World Cup meets from 1998 to 2006, but it could not attract enough of its own National Team athletes to justify continuing. Great Britain has not hosted since 2001, Canada since 2002, Australia since 2008. No World Cup meet has even been held in the Western Hemisphere since Rio hosted in 2010.<\/p>\n

On the flip side, plenty of athletes have taken advantage of the World Cup opportunities\u2014and the associated prize money. Stud breaststroker Cameron van der Burgh<\/strong> won the World Cup series three times. Before he had made a name for himself long course, van der Burgh travelled the world, did his (later controversial) pullouts and won the 50 and 100 breast meet after meet.<\/p>\n

American backstrokers Randall Bal<\/strong> and Peter Marshall<\/strong> sustained their respective careers several years past their prime on the World Cup circuit, and now Hurley has done the same. Morozov has pure speed and power, which in short course translates to 50s of stroke and the 100 IM\u2014hence his points lead for this year\u2019s circuit.<\/p>\n

Chad le Clos<\/strong> is the only man to have won more than 100 career World Cup races, including three each in the 50 and 100 free. Le Clos is by no means a sprint freestyler, but good underwaters plus poor attendance equals victories.<\/p>\n

But no one can compare to what Hosszu has done at World Cup meets. Since her debut in 2012, she has won a whopping 200 gold medals, almost twice has many as anyone else. 52 of those wins came in 2014, when she swept six events (200 free, 100\/200 back, 100\/200\/400 IM) at all seven meets on that year\u2019s circuit and broke five world records\u2014two each in the 100 IM and 200 IM and one in the 400 IM.<\/p>\n

For her efforts, FINA named Hosszu its top swimmer of the year<\/a>, citing her World Cup series win, her five short course meters world records and\u2014lastly\u2014her six medals at the European Championships.<\/p>\n

Sure, that\u2019s impressive\u2014but then remember what Ledecky did that year: five world records, all of them long course, and five gold medals at the Pan Pacific Championships. For those efforts, Ledecky was unanimously<\/em> named Swimming World<\/em>\u00a0World Swimmer of the Year. Hosszu earned European Swimmer of the Year honors.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf not for Katie Ledecky\u2019s earth-shattering swims in distance freestyle, Katinka Hosszu definitely would have had the credentials to win World Swimmer of the Year.\u201d (from Dec. 2015 issue of Swimming World Magazine<\/em>).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Hosszu was piling up World Cup gold medals that fall, Ledecky was back home in Northern Virginia, training for the long course World Championships coming up in 2015. At that meet in Kazan, Ledecky would become the first human being to sweep the 200, 400, 800 and 1500 frees at a World Championships, breaking three world records in the process.<\/p>\n

Hosszu won two golds in Kazan, broke one world record and then took home her fourth-consecutive World Cup series title. Swimming World<\/em>\u00a0again named Ledecky World Swimmer of the Year\u2014once again by unanimous vote\u2014and FINA again picked Hosszu.<\/p>\n

Also in 2014, Hagino won Swimming World<\/em> Male World Swimmer of the Year award for his five medals at Pan Pacs, seven at the Asian Games and his top times in the world in both the 200 and 400 IM in long course. Like Ledecky, Hagino won his award by unanimous decision.<\/p>\n

Le Clos, meanwhile, did not make top five in that vote\u2014but his win in the World Cup was enough for FINA to hand him their honors for top male swimmer of the year.<\/p>\n

Sensing a disconnect here?<\/p>\n

FINA puts immense value on its signature World Cup series, but only a minority of elite swimmers share those sentiments. World Cup victory totals seem like hollow numbers when your competition is thin\u2014and when you have more than a hundred of them.<\/p>\n

Does the series\u2019 short course format have anything to do with that? Well, last year FINA made the events long course because of the Olympic year, and the competition took a step up. Hosszu won \u201cjust\u201d 30 gold medals\u201415 of them in IM races.<\/p>\n

The more taxing nature of long course prevented Hosszu from attempting race programs as busy as she often does, and she faced stronger competitors than she typically does on the circuit\u2014Lauren Boyle<\/strong> in distance free, Emily Seebohm<\/strong> in the backstrokes and Cammile Adams<\/strong> and Franziska Hentke<\/strong> in the 200 fly.<\/p>\n

It’s become abundantly clear how little short course meters competition means to many of the world’s top swimmers. Athletes like Peaty are declining invitations to compete at the Short Course World Championships\u2014and surely, there will be more. Ever heard of anyone choosing to skip the long course version of that meet for any reason other than injury?<\/p>\n

Of course, it\u2019s hard to advance short course meters when the world\u2019s swimming powerhouse refuses to buy in. High school and college competition in the United States is almost exclusively short course yards, and with the prohibitive costs of building pools, that\u2019s not changing anytime soon, if ever.<\/p>\n

American swimmers grow up not caring about short course meters. Many other elite athletes from around the world come to share those sentiments when the focus becomes all Olympics, all the time, and the grind of long course training does not allow breaks for distractions like the World Cup.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t think FINA will stop marketing the World Cup as a marquee product anytime soon\u2014even if it may as well be called the \u201cHosszu Cup\u201d or the \u201cle Clos Cup,\u201d maybe even the \u201cMorozov Cup\u201d if the Russian keeps up with current pace.<\/p>\n

The \u201cWorld\u201d Cup? Got to get the world to show up first.<\/p>\n

All commentaries are the opinion of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Swimming World Magazine nor its staff.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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