{"id":487313,"date":"2021-09-13T13:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=487313"},"modified":"2021-09-13T13:52:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T20:52:53","slug":"the-week-that-was-toronto-titans-london-roar-win-isl-matches-dressel-held-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-week-that-was-toronto-titans-london-roar-win-isl-matches-dressel-held-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Week That Was: Toronto Titans, London Roar Win ISL Matches; Dressel Held Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate.<\/em><\/p>\n

This week, the Toronto Titans and London Roar each won an ISL match to cement themselves as contenders to get to the ISL final scheduled for January, while superstar\u00a0Caeleb Dressel<\/strong> made an appearance in the 200 IM but missed the second day of his match as he was feeling sick. Meanwhile,\u00a0Ahmed Hafnaoui<\/strong>, the shocking winner of Olympic gold in the men’s 400 freestyle, committed to swim in the NCAA at Indiana University.<\/p>\n

Read the five biggest stories of the week in The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate.<\/p>\n

The Week That Was #1: Match #5 and Match #6 Complete at ISL in Naples<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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London Roar’s Katsumi Nakamura, left, and Duncan Scott — Photo Courtesy: Giorgio Scala\/Deepbluemedia \/Insidefoto\/ISL<\/p><\/div>\n

By Matthew De George and Dan D’Addona<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a very long time since an International Swimming League match has proceeded without the Cali Condors on top. The \u2018Dors were dominant in the 2020 bubble season, winning all four regular-season matches, taking the second semifinal and then the Grand Final in grand fashion.<\/p>\n

But for the first time, the Condors look, if not vulnerable, at least in the same atmospheric strata and their fellow competitors. They entered the second day of ISL Match 6 trailing the London Roar and without\u00a0Caeleb Dressel<\/strong>\u00a0in the lineup, a chance to show\u00a0their considerable if unheralded depth<\/a>\u00a0on the men\u2019s side and to showcase an outstanding women\u2019s contingent that is not to be overlooked. They endured a big mid-meet DQ to dent their comeback chances.<\/p>\n

In the end, though, the depth of a surging London Roar proved to be too much, adding a layer of intrigue to an ISL 2021 season that no longer looks like a two-horse race between the Condors and Energy Standard. On the other end of the standings, Aqua Centurions moved its way into third place in the skins, covering a 28-point deficit heading into the final swims and leap-frogging the Tokyo Frog Kings.<\/p>\n