{"id":433869,"date":"2020-05-31T11:32:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T18:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=433869"},"modified":"2020-05-31T11:32:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T18:32:19","slug":"who-may-benefit-from-postponement-of-the-olympic-games-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/who-may-benefit-from-postponement-of-the-olympic-games-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Who May Benefit From Postponement of the Olympic Games? (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Who could really benefit from the Olympic Games postponement to 2021?<\/em><\/p>\n

When the\u00a0Olympic Games<\/a> got pushed back a year, there was a huge sigh of relief for many athletes who were struggling to find adequate training locations to be at their best this year. So with the Games moved to 2021, that provides athletes an extra year to grow mentally and physically to be at their best next summer. Although mostly everyone has been out of the water for the better part of two months, many have used this time to re-evaluate their goals and perhaps recover mentally from the last block of training.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, we looked at seven athletes who could really gain an advantage from an extra year for the Olympics<\/a>. Those swimmers were:<\/p>\n