﻿{"id":425774,"date":"2020-04-03T08:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=425774"},"modified":"2020-09-22T16:07:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T23:07:41","slug":"georgia-davies-isl-support-will-be-invaluable-and-allow-athletes-to-fully-focus-on-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/georgia-davies-isl-support-will-be-invaluable-and-allow-athletes-to-fully-focus-on-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Davies: ISL Support Will Be Invaluable And Allow Athletes To Fully Focus On Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Georgia Davies<\/strong> \u2013 world, European and Commonwealth medallist and <strong>Energy Standard<\/strong> athlete \u2013 has welcomed the <strong>International Swimming League<\/strong>\u2019s financial package for swimmers as good news amid the relentless darkness of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/international-swimming-league-solidarity-11m-lifeline-for-swimmers-in-corona-crunch\/\">The ISL unveiled on Friday morning an $11million lifeline<\/a> which guarantees all 320 swimmers from the 10 teams $1500 per month from September to July.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the financial package, all 10 teams have been invited to an all-expenses paid solidarity camp in October-November which will involve both training and competition and where the athletes will be the subject of some sort of reality TV show.<\/p>\n<p>Davies, who had decamped from her Energy Standard training base in Gloria, Turkey, to north London, told Swimming World:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s nice to have something a little positive to look forward to because the news at the moment is quite negative non-stop so it\u2019s nice for us to get some good news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst it was nice to have the dates of the new Olympic Games schedule confirmed and then with regard to the ISL which we all loved so much last year, it was so much fun. So it is really cool to hear about this solidarity agreement.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_381833\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381833\" data-attachment-id=\"381833\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/georgia-davies-isl-support-will-be-invaluable-and-allow-athletes-to-fully-focus-on-training\/georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,668\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-7SM2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1563733301&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-1\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-1&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Georgia Davies, of Great Britain &#8211; Photo Courtesy: Becca Wyant&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-1-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-1.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-381833\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-1-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-1\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-381833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Davies\u00a0 &#8211; Photo Courtesy: Becca Wyant<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt is really hard to tell what will and won\u2019t be affected. I think so many companies are going to be hugely negatively affected by the coronavirus, a lot of people are going to suffer financially so I don\u2019t know how that will affect different people\u2019s sponsorship agreements and things like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think having this support from the ISL \u2013 a regular scholarship coming in \u2013 is going to be really invaluable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust to allow people to carry on with their training and not stress out about things.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 29-year-old is now on British Swimming\u2019s world-class programme funding but for about three years Davies did not qualify for any investment provided by UK Sport.<\/p>\n<p>Although she received funds from Welsh Swimming, Davies understands how precarious funding can be, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI can\u2019t say I\u2019ve ever had that situation where I\u2019ve not had any funding. Even when I\u2019ve not been on British funding I\u2019ve been really fortunate to have support from Welsh Swimming and it is a smaller amount but it is still really nice to have that support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, I have been part of Energy Standard since February 2017 so I get a lot of support from them as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know for a lot of people if they are taken off British funding that could have been their only source of income.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_381834\" style=\"width: 373px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381834\" data-attachment-id=\"381834\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/georgia-davies-isl-support-will-be-invaluable-and-allow-athletes-to-fully-focus-on-training\/georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,579\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;ILCE-7SM2&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1563733092&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;2000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.000625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-2\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-2&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Becca Wyant&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-2-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-2.jpg\" class=\" wp-image-381834\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-2-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"georgia-davies-100-back-prelims-fina-world-championships-2\" width=\"363\" height=\"259\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-381834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Davies: Photo Courtesy: Becca Wyant<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Davies also welcomed the prospect of the training\/competition camp as a similar set-up to her base in Turkey where she is coached by <strong>James Gibson<\/strong> and which she believes the team will be attending.<\/p>\n<p>She said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI think that is the plan. It\u2019s quite early days and I don\u2019t know too many of the details but basically I live abroad and I train abroad so to some extent I do what some people would consider a training camp for a lot of the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI find that very beneficial, I really enjoy it. I love travelling, I love being in the sun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s a really great way to have competition as well \u2013 within training \u2013 and getting lots of people together with international swimmers going head to head and pushing each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe often have guest swimmers who come and visit us out in Turkey with Energy Standard and I think it is really beneficial for our training and that would be something I would be really interested in.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As for the ISL competition, Davies has nothing but praise with victory at the grand finale in Las Vegas back in December 2019 still fresh in the memory.<\/p>\n<p>It brought a whole new concept which involved athlete consultation, financial recognition and high-quality team competition.<\/p>\n<p>She said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe great thing about it is the whole package. I have to say for me I just loved the whole team aspect of it and that\u2019s the only time where you are more worried about swimming well because you don\u2019t want to let down your team-mates and you want to\u00a0 get as many points as you can for your team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it brought a really different dynamic to racing and one that everyone really seemed to enjoy. We still tried to race as fast as we cold but rather than it be for a medal or individual glory, it was all just for the team.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Davies \u2013 world, European and Commonwealth medallist and Energy Standard athlete \u2013 has welcomed the International Swimming League\u2019s financial package for swimmers as good news amid the relentless darkness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7575,"featured_media":383486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[25075,72128,25077,122198,71150,125563,72224,10045,120722,1559],"class_list":["post-425774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-british-swimming","tag-energy-standard","tag-georgia-davies","tag-gloria","tag-international-swimming-league","tag-international-swimming-league-2020","tag-isl","tag-james-gibson","tag-swim-wales","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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