Animated Sport Results II.
Swimming
During a swimming event athletes swim 3 times: a heat round, a semifinal, and a final if they are in the top 8.
It's also less important how the other athletes are doing in the pool; athletes are rather competing against themselves and want to swim their best time. So one athlete could have up to 3 swim result per event and it helps to compare all these results (heat, semifinal, final) in the same animation.
The dataset contained only the split times, but I did add a little easing, since I wanted the dots to be a little faster as if they would "push" themselves from the side of the pool.
It's also less important how the other athletes are doing in the pool; athletes are rather competing against themselves and want to swim their best time. So one athlete could have up to 3 swim result per event and it helps to compare all these results (heat, semifinal, final) in the same animation.
The dataset contained only the split times, but I did add a little easing, since I wanted the dots to be a little faster as if they would "push" themselves from the side of the pool.
For some swimming events there are no semifinals. The final happens after the heats. 800m Freestyle is one example for this.
Swimming visualizations were inspired by Replay: Ledecky 800m Freestyle created by nytimes.com.
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