{"id":426383,"date":"2020-04-08T12:41:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T19:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?post_type=product&#038;p=426383"},"modified":"2020-04-11T00:01:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T07:01:30","slug":"sw-biweekly-what-now-after-olympics-postponed","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/product\/sw-biweekly-what-now-after-olympics-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"SW Biweekly &#8211; What Now After Olympics Postponed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>FEATURES<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">008 IOC CONFIRMS TOKYO 2020 WILL START ON JULY 23, 2021<\/span> <\/strong><br \/>\n<em>by Liz Byrnes<\/em><br \/>\nThe Olympic Games were scheduled to start on\u00a0 July 24, 2020, but the relentless march of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forced the IOC to postpone the Games for the first time in their history. Tokyo 2020 will now take place from July 23 to Aug. 8, 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">009 GERMAN SWIM FEDERATION JOINS CANADA IN URGING FINA TO HOLD 2021 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN 2022<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>by Craig Lord<\/em><br \/>\nThe German Swim Federation has joined Swimming Canada in urging FINA to shunt the 2021 World\u00a0 Swimming Championships into 2022 to take\u00a0 account of the new dates for the Olympic Games due to the coronavirus pandemic. Worlds are currently scheduled for Fukuoka, Japan from July 16 to Aug. 1, but the Tokyo Olympics will now be staged from July 23 to Aug. 8.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>010 SWIMMERS PREPARE FOR CHALLENGES OF OLYMPIC POSTPONEMENT<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>by Andy Ross<\/em><br \/>\nThe postponement of the Olympic Games first\u00a0 brought a sigh of relief for athletes and coaches\u00a0 everywhere, but with the Games being pushed to 2021, that changes so many things for athletes around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">014 THE TOKYO POSTPONEMENT IN PERSPECTIVE: WHAT HAS (AND HASN\u2019T) STOPPED THE OLYMPICS<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>by Matthew De George<\/em><br \/>\nThe Olympic Movement has weathered boycotts and World Wars. It has navigated such international catastrophes as apartheid and the Nazi regime, plus dozens of civil wars and the full gamut of conflicts and chaos. The COVID-19 outbreak\u2019s ability to knock the Olympics out of commission until 2021 is a testament to the virus\u2019 threat to humanity and the gravity of the public-health situation across the globe.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">016 MONA McSHARRY: IT\u2019S NOT ALL ABOUT RAINBOWS AND SUNSHINE ON THE DAY IRISH OLYMPIC TRIALS WERE DUE TO START<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>by Liz Byrnes <\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>018 GRANT HACKETT SAYS TOKYO 2021 WILL PROVIDE INSPIRATION TO THE WORLD JUST WHEN IT NEEDS IT<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>by Ian Hanson <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">020 \u201cPRIORITIZE THE OLYMPICS, THE ONLY COMPETITION THAT MATTERS,\u201d SAYS SWIM ELDER SWEETENHAM<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>by Ian Hanson<\/em><br \/>\nAustralia\u2019s Bill Sweetenham, one of the elders\u00a0 of world swimming, has urged coaches and swimmers to \u201cprioritize the Olympics first and foremost\u201d now that the dates of Tokyo 2020 have been rescheduled for 2021, \u201cas historically, no one recognizes or remembers any other result or competition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>022 THE MOSCOW BOYCOTT: A TOXIC MIX OF SPORTS AND POLITICS PROVED COSTLY FOR HARD-WORKING ATHLETES<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>by John Lohn<\/em><br \/>\nYears of hard work went unfulfilled. Dreams turned into nightmares. Sadness and anger abounded.\u00a0 The repercussions of the United States\u2019 decision to boycott the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow were severe. Here is the story on the Moscow boycott, including comments from athletes who were impacted by the decision.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>026 RAY LOOZE DISHES ON DIFFICULTIES OF COACHING FROM HOME, DENIES RUMORS OF MOVE TO USC<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>by Andy Ross<\/em><br \/>\nIndiana head coach Ray Looze has had difficulties processing the coronavirus pandemic that has caused normal life to be turned upside down. Looze and his Indiana team lost a chance to compete at NCAAs, and he has had to resort to coaching from home while trying to prepare his swimmers for an Olympic Games that is now another 400-plus days away. But he has put a positive spin on it.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>030 KIERAN SMITH HOPES STELLAR SOPHOMORE YEAR IS JUST THE BEGINNING <\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>by Andy Ross<\/em><br \/>\nKieran Smith\u2019s breakout sophomore year at the University of Florida is a sign of bigger things to come for the Ridgefield, Conn. native.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>034 HOW THEY TRAIN LUKE PAXTON AND OWEN TAYLOR<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>by Michael J. Stott<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>035 FINA URGED TO HAND NORTHERN WINTER TO ISL AND \u201cUSE CORONAVIRUS\u201d STORM TO REINVENT SWIMMING<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<em>by Craig Lord<\/em><br \/>\nFINA, the international federation, is under pressure from its major stakeholders, swimmers and coaches to embrace a major overhaul of the sport of swimming.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>039 PARTING SHOTWhWhat\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With swimming meets and competitions cancelled and the Olympics postponed, coaches and swimmers grapple with the unknown.\u00a0 Read about what governing bodies, coaches and swimmers are saying about the sport in this issue of <em>Swimming World Biweekly.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":426376,"template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[56108,120323],"product_tag":[121101,122218],"class_list":{"0":"post-426383","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-swimming-world-biweekly-1","7":"product_cat-click-to-view-all-issues-in-2020-swimming-world-biweekly-1","8":"product_tag-coronavirus","9":"product_tag-covid-19","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"downloadable","14":"sold-individually","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"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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