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With competition shut down because of the
COVID-19 pandemic, SA have put together a busy schedule to give
swimmers as many opportunities as possible to race at home over
the next 12 months.
An extended national short course championships will take place
in Melbourne from Nov. 26-29, with the national long course
championships starting on April 14 next year and the Olympic
trials, also in Adelaide, taking place from June 12-17. "With
the prospect of international racing still up in the air leading
into Tokyo, we've been working ... to make sure the complete
domestic calendar provides plenty of strong, quality race
practice for our athletes," SA's Alex Baumann said in a
statement.
"The preparation our athletes will now experience due to the
challenges they've all faced with COVID-19 will be vastly
different to their original plans, so it was imperative that we
provide them with the best possible platform to reboot...
"One of those measures was scheduling finals in the morning and
heats at night during the (national championships) to replicate
the programme our athletes will encounter at the Olympics."
The national open water championships, which will form part of
the nomination process for Tokyo, will take place in late
January at a venue yet to be announced.
The Tokyo Olympics, which were postponed because of the
coronavirus outbreak, will take place from July 23-Aug. 8 next
year.
(Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Peter Rutherford)
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