The ISL Has Produced Its Finest Innovation Yet With Real-Time Race Standings

2020 INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE: MATCH 3

Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I have actually been rather vital of the early presentation of the International Swimming League.

While the pacing and the graphics quality of the satisfy are definitely novel, that’s been lost on a lot of the other problems.

While the league still has a long way to go, on Sunday they revealed a new development that is, solitarily, the very best thing that the ISL has actually done so far: live in-race locations.

Not just at the turns where there are divides.

Not simply at the finish.

Live, in real time, throughout the race. Just as we proposed at the end of last season.

The locations are revealed as an overlay on the lane behind the professional athletes, almost as a tail. It’s not best yet, but it’s still remarkable to view.

This is the development that the ISL needed to make the format work for TELEVISION. Now you feel like you can enjoy a race and know what’s happening during the race, not simply a sort of black box that emerges at the end with some points.

THIS is the future of swimming.