{"id":441507,"date":"2020-07-26T00:21:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T07:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=441507"},"modified":"2024-10-28T11:23:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T18:23:42","slug":"on-the-days-of-tokyo-2020-finals-postponed-virtual-form-guide-league-of-olympic-swim-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/on-the-days-of-tokyo-2020-finals-postponed-virtual-form-guide-league-of-olympic-swim-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"During Tokyo 2020 Finals Postponed: Virtual Form Guide & League Of Olympic Swim Legends"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you think would have unfolded had the Tokyo 2020 Games<\/strong> gone ahead as planned this week – and where would it all have fit in the thread of Olympic swim legends<\/strong> of yesteryear? <\/span><\/p>\n

To mark the eight days over which swimming finals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games<\/a> would have unfolded had the coronavirus pandemic not forced postponement, the team at\u00a0Swimming World<\/em> is filling the void with a look at the key protagonists in each event, their relative strengths and a hint at how the racing might have panned out up to the closing metres of battle.<\/span><\/p>\n

We won’t be calling races. You, the readers and fans, may imagine the ends of races, the podiums filling with the names we know, conscious, perhaps, that there will also be names we know but haven’t factored in and names we don’t know so well who, in the extra year of preparation ahead, may write their achievements into the book of Olympic history when Tokyo202One unfolds in the same week one year on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever your thoughts and\u00a0virtual picks among real people working to create their futures, consider the impact of writing people in and others out as you ponder these wise words:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNever make predictions, especially about the future.\u201d –\u00a0Yogi Berra<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In parallel to our virtual-vision exercise, our editors Craig Lord and John Lohn<\/em>\u00a0will also follow the Tokyo2020 schedule in bringing you our League of Olympic Swim Legends<\/strong>, event by event. <\/span><\/p>\n

The League trawls Olympic swimming history all the way back to 1896 and, using a points system built to help us compare the relative strengths of the great champions down the decades, we will bring you, in each event:<\/span><\/p>\n