Asian Games 2026 PREVIEW

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1:05This podcast is brought to you by Thompson Reuters. The best don't just do their work. They change what's possible. Cases 1, audits completed, jobs saved. Behind every one of those moments is a professional who needed to get it right and did. Thompson Reuters builds the technology that sharpens insights, speeds up decision making, and powers the outcomes that matter. So when professionals act, the impact is felt by everyone. Be a change maker. Visit tr.com forward slash change makers. Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcast. I hope you're all keeping well. Me and Dan are back this week talking Asian games for a very special episode of the Propulsion Swimming Podcasts where diving deep into our knowledge pool and deep into the swim nerd, like the deep swim nerd inside us. To give you guys a preview of a competition happening on the other side of the world,

2:05it's one that honestly me and Dan, we haven't paid enough attention to in the past. Previous editions, there have been some wicked swims that have come out of Asia over recent years. We don't want to be western biased on this podcast. We actually want to bring to you guys knowledge, swims from all over the world that we can. That's why this week we're going to be going through a competition that starts on the 20th of September from right now. I believe that's right. It's this weekend definitely. I think we kind of, I don't forget, but some of the best summers represent Asia, your China, Japan, and some of the more world record holders, some of them have one international and Olympic medals. We're going to go through our summers to watch, our main races and probably the best swims as well. We did do a little bit of a live stream, sort of bold prediction on Monday, somewhere a bit bold, and some, I turned it into a bit more of a realistic prediction, which is very enlightening. You did a little bit. But I think this one would be more realistic than what we were kind of saying potentially, but there'll be some fast swims for sure.

3:09Yeah, I would say this episode is going to be a slightly more in depth, slightly more organized, a little, like the whole premise of if you're joining us on a live stream on a Monday night to MPM YouTube, it is relaxed. It's chilled out. We're having a bit of fun with audience, with the chat, as we go along, and like Dan said, we put out some big, bold predictions there where we had, I'm trying to think the biggest one that we talked about, maybe you, Zedee, maybe go in a 204 and the two fly, that was kind of a punch of one, you even discussed two, three. That's maybe, we'll get into that, like you said, but Dan, this week we're going to be going through the talking points of Asian games, like coming up so that everyone knows who this room is still like out for, because in our research heading into this, like it surprised us some of the times that have come out of Asia, like in June that went under the radar. Now, Asian games, for those who aren't aware, I would compare this to the same level of commonwealth games. European, yeah, European championship, I would call this like a continent, it is a continental me, Asian, that's what it means.

4:10The main players on show our China, South Korea, I mean Hong Kong, Chihuahua, and Japan, it's going to be hosted in Japan, it's Nagoya is the host city, but the swimming is actually going to be held at the Olympic Tokyo venue, great, it's going to be great to see crowds in there, because they got robbed of a very good Olympic games from British standards as well. Really good Olympic games. In terms of watching Asian games in the UK, I personally have not found anywhere yet. What we will do is the comment section of this video on YouTube, we'll put it, if we find it, we will put it, because me and Dan are going to watch some want to watch some of these races, that's the whole point of this podcast, we're going to tell you like three races we cannot wait to see, so we are going to be hunting for leaks for links so that we can see them. Yes, I mean the idea is to do potentially a review of this meet as well, so ideally watching some of these races would be ideal, if we can't watch that then the review becomes a lot harder,

5:11and we're just literally looking at the screen, looking at its time, looking at the time, it's not great, this is pretty good, but we need to we want to analyze, we want to pop our swim nerd it and say what went well and stuff like that. But yes, I mean there's a lot of summers, I've kind of listed a lot of big names, and now I'm not shes huge names. I know when we did the European preview, we kind of tried to condense into a top three or top five, and then we kind of branched out, we kind of branched out, we looked like top ten eventually, I feel like that's what's going to happen here as well, so I don't know where you want to start, I feel like China is the main country for Asian games, do you want to start with China? Even if Japan's hosting, what we can start with Japan, I'm really happy, honestly either way we want to go. I agree, the Chinese squad is littered with Olympic champions, World Record Hortes, names of the absolute future and names of the past and present, so I think the main protagonist on show you've got Zanyu Fai, Li Bingji, Tang, Yu Yiting, Yuzi, Yuzi, Yuzi, these are big talking points, we'll get to see later on in the podcast on the mail side, you got Wang Shun, Pan Zan Le, Zhai Yu, Zhang,

6:17Zhang Shu on freestyle, he's a massive star coming through, I think we'll talk about him and Yuzi, together at the end of this podcast, maybe the bright spots that come in through in the Asian swimming scene and of course, Qing Hai Yang, as well, I want to start the Chinese discussion, not with the stars of Pan Zan Le and Qing Hai Yang, I'm going to start with Zhai Yu, a backstroker who has, he's been around the block forever, he's an absolute veteran, we just did the research hadn't in to this podcast and he meddled in Rio, which it, it feels like a lifetime ago, but then you remember Adam Pee to his is absolutely pomp and Rio, so the swimmers from Rio are still knocking about and still leading the light, but he's 31 now, he has been ever consistent when it comes to, well, the Olympic Games, he has always shown up for China, especially when it's come to a relay, the medley relay has always been dangerous because he has always been a reliable leg and the 100 backstroke has, I would say Dan, been forever his strongest suit, I would say 50 this year

7:23is something I have taken note of, so Chinese nationals which happened in June and given all that was going on in European swimming kind of went under the radar of me and Dan, a little bit, there was some big swimmers, so we did take note of, here's where my didn't until we did the research of this podcast now 50 backstroke worldwide right now, I would say to be considered outstanding, considered world leading, you're going sub 24 seconds and you is sub 24 seconds this year, albeit at a national competition, so Asian Games is the big target, I know it's kind of alien, September is your big major meet of the summer, but that's just what it is in their calendar. You went at 23.92, breaking the Asian record by 0.3, that's a massive swim, a massive swim, and that would have won Europeans over here. It would, it would have, it's amazing, 31, I think you said 31, and these guys are in here, you're early 30s and still PB, we talk about Jimmy doing what he's

8:28doing currently and he's getting quicker and quicker getting older and older like everyone does, getting quicker and quicker, generally speaking, as you age, you get what? I seem to mean it's changing that narrative. It does seem as though the long geracy is increasing, like summer's going on longer, getting faster for longer as well, and it's hard to say that he's not going to be putting out a very good swim here, that 50 back is what you've highlighted here, but I still think the 100 back is his bread and butter. It's a little bit more unknown, because I haven't got the time to hand of what he did. Well, this is a thing with a lot of these summers, I think we'll get to this, where there's a lot of unknown here, we'll get to Pan's Unleur, who's only this season, he hasn't gone a sub 48, which is crazy, I mean his PB was world record, it's a 46 and a half, which is bent or is it? Yeah, exactly. But going back to Jiu, ever present on a back-shoped leg, I mean he is probably still capable of going a sub 52 if I'm honest, even a 52, 0, 52, 1, you're in an Olympic final, that's a Olympic final sort of standard,

9:33and he will probably be in that sort of conversation all the time. Yeah, he's an outstanding summer, and I suspect he's going to go on to LA, like all of that sort of ear of summer, who are doing well in Rio, definitely names watch out, there's a lot of names to watch out for, Jiu, you've got new view, or tops picks, is it? Yeah, I'm just really excited, because the word of backstroke is in a very, very exciting place, and obviously we get carried away that Europe is leading the way with Peter Cutsie, and we've had the pleasure of following it also, I'm a long way up Peter Cutsie all commonwealth games, and then we had a huge cost, Thomas Check-on, 100 backstroke Europeans was just wild, and we're treated that here in the UK, we've got Oli Morgan, and then the likes of Jack Scarry and Canberra could come in through as well. I don't want the Asian names to be forgotten, because Jiu's PB is a 51-8, like that is otherworldly fast, he did that at Chinese Championships, he swims fast when it comes to racing in Asia, like his best personal best times are at these meets Asian Games, Chinese Championships.

10:37Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing, I would highlight the 50 a little bit more, it looks like the target, based on the swims this year, and I mean there's a lot of swimmers now, who the 50's been added into the Olympic programme, and suddenly you're seeing open doors and PB's at sprinting events, and I think the 50 times are going to be tumbling all over the place now. Yeah, usually as swimmers get older they sort of go down to your sprint event, you look at me like I'm going to use a man's strength. Yes, it's a little bit like that, I guess, if you want to move it that way. But again, that's a long, jevicey sort of thing, who, how long can Macaw is going to be a game doing what he's doing? God knows, I think Andy Irving went until he was like 36, and he won a Olympic gold, Likler Santos is effectively still going, but swimming for Masters and still streamed stupid times 50 fly. So who knows, he might still keep going just for the 50 back alone with the bonus of the 100 back for a relay potentially. Look, we've, you've scutted over pans that we've spoken a little bit about pans on though this year, but the 100 free again comparing it to what happened in Europe, Europe was fast.

11:40It was 100 free. You had three guys sub 47 seconds. Panseller trained with one of those guys this year. It's been well documented, we've spoken about it a lot on live streams. He was with David Popovich at one point into Popovich's training heading into European championships. Now I've seen what David Popovich has done this summer in 100 meters free. So and I can only hazard a guess that Panseller will show up at Asian Games. I will be swimming around that mark. Co. Four years ago when it came to Asian Games, he broke 47 seconds for the first time. He went 46, nine, Asian record. Again, this is the major meet this summer. Like we could, you could easily disregard it as like early season swimming, but it's not. This is the key meet. So while we've not seen much, if any of pans I'll have really let you say and he's not broken 48. He'll show up at Asian Games. I think he has to show up.

12:41Otherwise, if you don't see a 46 from him, I think people are going to all just get lost. We were about fairly harsh. Yeah, well, I just, when you're a world record holder and what he did at the Paris Olympics, winning by a body length ahead of Charmers, Popovich, all of that field, was in a slow put. Yeah, in a slow put. Exactly. This Tokyo pool is quick. I mean, basically, the Olympics, it should be a quick pull. So expect some fast times. I don't know if there's pressure on him to get to a 46, even if it's a 46, eight, let's say, that's outstanding. And then he's still in that sort of the conversation, I suppose. He should always be in a conversation, be a world record holder. But if you see suddenly a 47, five or six, he's then going to be kind of forgotten in terms of who's going to be winning gold in LA. Everyone's just going to think, oh, it's going to be Popovich. My family being me, like based on what he did in Paris. So you never know. I think he's going to have to perform. The Hunter's free is going to be the massive highlight for him, obviously. But I think

13:42he's going to be a threat elsewhere. Soon, free. We'll talk about that very, very soon. I mean, he has been known to do the 400, I think even the 800 when it was short course, of course, whether or not I don't think he will. I think he might even do the 50. That'll be interesting. See how fast he has that front end because he went super duquick to hit that wall, Dreckle's front end speed. I always going to say that the 50 is quietly. I mean, there's a deep 50 when it comes to Asian games. Like there are good, good swimmers. I remember correctly last Asian games. He swam a 21 seven and didn't win. Yeah. So it's going to be deep. And yes, I agree. Like seeing what he does in the 50. I love the corner of comparison. They're actually very, very similar swimmers in terms of their abilities and what they're, I mean, obviously, panse-anlers PB in the 100 is much quicker. Well, not much is half a second quicker. But they've got the same strengths early early swimmers. Yes. Yes. Yeah, it would just be good

14:45to see him race again. If I'm honest, I feel like I haven't race seen race since probably the Olympics properly. So be good to see him. And I kind of put Wang Chun in this bracket as well as someone who's got to show up and hit a time. Okay. 200. I am feels like it's moved on. I know. And Gonzales who's doing some super swims, cost is just doing really well. Marcia, we don't need to talk about him. He's flying. There are others Duncan, obviously. Cassas. Exactly. Yeah. So you've got to have to go, I mean, in that conversation now, even though Duncan hasn't hit a 154, I mean, you're going to have to go 154 to podium at these international meets. It feels like Wang Chun is in that same category. I feel like his head is. I think so. Yeah. I kind of think he needs to go at least a 55 low. If not, he's going to be in that 54s. Again, just to maintain the conversation of he is a metal threat. I mean, I suppose you give the the goal to Marcia on right now just because of the world record time that he can do. And he did what he did at Europeans with one leg. So people say with the injury.

15:45And so we'll see what Marcia on does, obviously, but when it comes to everyone else, you've got to try and keep up. And this is the, that's not the problem. It's just the way it is with Asian games being in September. It's a starter season, but it's not just kind of the end of the season as well. Yeah. They're the main composition, if that makes sense. So just to see where they are, you know, it's a difficult meat to try in place because it's completely reversed for us. This is the start of season when people have had their break. Whereas these guys haven't, they shouldn't train. Obviously, this is an major meat. So I put Wang Shun in that same category as pan to be fair. On the female side for Chinese swimmers, I'm looking forward to Lee Bingji. So she is one of a few, like a very, very handful of swimmers to go sub four minutes in the 400 meters freestyle. Now, do I think she can challenge someone I can touch? No. But I wouldn't say they're queuing up behind in summer. But if she can progress like she had in 2025 where she went sub four for the first time,

16:48which was last year. So I'm hoping she can back that up at this Asian games and carry on that drops through. She's been around for a little bit now, but she's still only 24. Yeah. Yeah. And the four three, if you're going sub four minutes, I think you're right in the top of the world, echelon. It's just some of my little skews perceptions. Yes. Yeah. I mean, I put her in a very, very consistent category. I've never really seen her do a bad swim. I mean, you might have, you might pick one from the middle of nowhere off season, let's say. But generally speaking, she always does do some very good swims, especially in relays. That she reaches 9.4x2, didn't she? Yeah, exactly. And actually, I'm kind of looking forward to what talks about talking about this and races to watch. But the 200 free is going to be special. I think on the women's side and being leaving G is, and she's fun, holy, the two leading lights in that. But yeah, we'll see how she gets on. What I think other names will get to when we talk about

17:49race, and yeah, just a few. They can overlap a little bit here. Yeah. This podcast is brought to you by Thompson Reuters. The best don't just do their work. They change what's possible. Cases one, audits completed, jobs saved. Behind every one of those moments is a professional who needed to get it right and did. Thompson Reuters builds the technology that sharpens insights, speeds up decision making, and powers the outcomes that matter. So when professionals act, the impact is felt by everyone. Be a change maker, visit TR.com forward slash change makers. Most women have been there. Something feels off. You don't feel like yourself. Yet your doctor says everything looks fine. Spoiler, it's your hormones. Midi is a virtual care platform built for women by women and offers specialized hormone care from trained clinicians. Plus, it's covered by most major insurances. Getting started is easy. You can book your first visit with a clinician right away. It's not you. It's your hormones. Visit joinmidi.com to book your first visit.

18:51That's join M-I-D-I-D-I-.com. Insurance coverage varies. Check with your plan for coverage. Moving past that to... Do you want to talk about the Japanese women or do you want to actually now go into? The names for Japanese women that we've got highlighted here is Machu-Sita Riko Aikii. I believe it's Hase. She knows Hase. I'm really looking forward to. I can't quite figure out if Pampax was the big target meet going up against the Americans or just before Pampax. Some of his times were wicked in the 100. The two look like a learning experience. You've said that multiple times on our lives down here. He's going to get the chance to go against Chin Hai-Aing, which is massive. That is a monumental head to that. I know he adds a big head to heads over in Pampax against Hase. It's like a double-dee cook and fanmaphias. This is a different stratosphere of head to head. Actually, let's talk about races. That we're looking for. I'll go say we're

19:52going to get a chance to do race. To me, this is the big highlighted one. This is the one that I'm going to be scouring YouTube to find the footage of this race. I kind of know where she's at at this point in the season. I don't know where Chin Hai-Aing is at, but I mean, he's well record holder in the 200 meters brushstroke. It's a big scalp for an 18-year-old to take down. Yeah, I said this on a live stream. We've talked about who's be favorite. I mean, I put the prediction out there that Ohashi is going to do the double, the 100 and 200 over Chin Hai-Aing. Whether that's bold or not, I've got no idea. Who goes in favorite? I still think Chin would go in his favorite just because of name, value and experience. He's been there and done it. He's actually won these medals as well. Has the PBs behind him as well. So you're kind of it's hard to not say that Chin is favorite for those two events, but when you've got a young lion effectively chasing you down, if not, you might

20:54even be ahead. Who knows? That's a threat. That's a real threat and he's got the form heading in only because we just don't know where Chin is right now. I'm trying to think the strength of Chin Ohashi this year for me has been the 100 over the two. Yes, I think so. But then you look at Chin Hai-Aing and you go, what is the strength here? Because the two he's got the world record on, but the 100 he's realistically the only man who's got anywhere near close to PT's world record. I know he's not realistically. Realistically, he's I mean, he's second, but it is a distant second, but that to me puts him a stratosphere ahead. Although I feel like Chin Ohashi this summer has looked more likely to beat him in the 100. See, this is this is I don't know if it's recent. He buys, but it's might be a little bit. He's got a 58 one hasn't he? 15. It's good isn't it? That's what he created. One European would have won Commonwealth Games. Yeah, yeah. These are massive times and PanPax was

21:55it was quite a slow meat bar the the wicked world records that we saw in the 50 meters freestyle. A lot of the times won as fast as Europeans. Yeah. The the pressure at races did not go under all radar how fast he wore out there. No, and as much as we're talking about Chin Ohashi and Chin Hai-Aing as the two leading lights as they probably rightly should be, but you've got one of Tabi there. You've got the world junior record holder, short course meters granted in in my zoomi. Hopefully I've pronounced that right. So you've got a number of summers here. Japanese brush, sorry, it's just it's rising. They could potentially upset the apple cart and based on what we're saying here. But I love to get everyone's comments here of who you think will win these brush events because they're definitely definitely a highlighted event. But it might even be the 50 as well. But all of the men's brush stroke right now you need to watch that. That's extremely exciting. One of my other swims was or races we should say was I'd lose it to early. It was a women's 203. I put Shivon Hauhi in that same sort of category. I don't know where she's at. I've just got

22:58no idea, but the times are on her side. Leabingji, like I said, is a very consistent summer so she's going to hit time. So Shivon Hauhi's going to have to work hard to get these golds. I was going to say on the livestream with the ball prediction out of Shivon Hauhi. He wasn't going to win a gold. I think she'll win it in the 100 because I think Yang, Wang, I think, I've pronounced that right. Isn't doing 100 free. She's not going for China. So I think Shivon Hauhi will win that one so it doesn't make it a big head to head. But the 200 free is one to look out for. And you're going to have to go where's the world at the moment, 154's at least. I think those girls are very capable of doing that, but if they're going to scare anyone else in the world, you want to see a 53 next year name, I suppose. And then you're dealing with the top top then. They're very capable. And hopefully, as a head said, they can spurt. I've run to hit some stupid time like that. So another sort of head Ted, I guess, to watch out for. Yeah, my final race was the men's side of the 200 meters free stuff. So you've gone, I don't know what happened. And I could do in the two free. It feels like

24:01if you're going as fast as he is in the 100, a bit like pop of it, she should be standing at the 200 meters free start, but he's not in the same stratosphere as pop of it yet. Maybe it's an untapped potential. And the fact that he was training with pop of it, which might say that he's leaning more towards the two than the 50 that we spoke about earlier on in this podcast. But he's actually not like if he's there or not. He's not the reason I'm excited for that. So you've got two Korean swimmers in here and Wang Sun Wu, Kim Wu Min, and then you throw in a new Chinese name in freestyle. And I say new, he's a world junior champion. He's been around, he's got junior records in Zang Zan Xu. I hope I'm saying that right. The battle between him and Wang Sun Wu is, I mean, you could put it in the same kind of category as Hop Sun against Gabe Jett. I guess the Pan Pax. It could be sub 144's. Zan Xu went to Pan Pax and finished third behind those two

25:03Americans. Yeah, your knowledge is going to be better with me. What's his PB? Zang Xu here. Because we know what Wang can do. He's a 143. And with your comparison to Americans, they both went 43. So I'm just wondering whether he's able to go 43 and join Wang down there, whether they go that fast or not. If you're going a low 44, that might even be good enough to win. But I'm just wondering if it's going to be competitive. Because I guess it's the veteran against the young pretender coming through. I guess it's the same source of storyline for a lot of these races. Whether Wang could, I mean, he's does some crazy tactics sometimes. He really does go out for it sometimes and pace for it. But he's going to be favorite. I would have thought. So, yeah. So Zan Xu at Chinese Open, so earlier this year, went a 144.5. Okay, so it's going to be close. It's going to be close. And I'm going to highlight this in the 400 meters freestyle. I want a 341.5.

26:03That's a bit good. That's good. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't know that. Maybe I should keep tabs on him a little bit more. If you're going 341, that's very close to Sam's short territory. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's three big races. I'm sure there's others. But I think we should get onto the top swims. Again, very different swims and races are very different things. I think the most obvious one to start with is probably massive shooter. He's probably one of the few summers, as long as Shinohashi, where we know where he's at. He's just gone a 405 in a 400 IM. And we were sort of saying, is a 404 on the card? Some people kind of agreeing with that as well. Right. So there's a chance of it. And like I said, live streaming is very clear where the improvement's got to be, which is the backstroke. But if you take some time off the backstroke, does that then affect the freestyle at the end? That's what he's got a way up. But form going in, he's probably the form summer in all of Asian games. I was 100%. 100%. So he's going to be the swim to look out for.

27:07He might, what? I mean, Japanese forge diamond is extremely good. But he's kind of just found another level. There's another Japanese for him. He's going to 408. Exactly. And both for those times would have what they would have won Europeans. Yeah. What do you know? I believe as well. I can't remember his name because of K. I don't want you to find out more about. But massive cheetah is, yeah, he's just circled that event just to watch him. Really? Yes. And see if he pushes on the backstroke and you see a fast like 200 split. You think, oh, okay, let's see his freestyle is, I mean, yeah, there's a best in 4 IM history. Actually, because it's better than the first. I effectively, yeah, it's correct. Yeah, better than the Phelps. So his back end speed is, it was phenomenal where he raced. It was like a few weeks ago. It wasn't even that. It was like one, maybe two weeks ago. Four or five only locked-y Phelps and Martian are above him now in the world. Rankings. It's, I mean, Annie's, he's got pedigree. He was silver in Paris, like behind,

28:11like this is the problem. Completely forgotten behind Leon. He's got a pedigree as well. This isn't just some new guy coming through. This is a guy making strides and strides and strides. And you know, if anyone's going to put pressure on Martian, if that's even possible, he's the guy. He is the guy. He's the guy. Yeah. I mean, Martian hasn't raced the fungime, of course, this season because of his, his adult injury. So he hasn't been able to do pressure properly. But if anyone's going to challenge him, yeah, it's massive cheetah. And if he throws down a 404, surely that's the only, the only issue where they go head to head is Martian is gone until the until the freestyle. Really, it's like you're chasing him down, which you don't want to be. I don't think you want to be in that position. I mean, maybe you'll level with him on backstroke if you really push it, but he leaves you on the pressure. He'll have to see if match you see, so changes it up now for Asian games because we know what he can do at the back end of the forum. It is the best of all time in the freestyle. In fact, he needs to push the, you're right. The backstroke leg was a work on.

29:17Yeah, I mean, we did a split comparison between him, Lockty, a not Lockty, Martian on just the fly bit alone. And the problem is it's kind of harsh on massive cheetah because you're dealing with Phalps, who was the best fly soma of all time, at the time, I suppose. And then Martian, who's extremely good, well, Olympic gold medalist, at 200 fly himself, 49 point as well, and that relay split as well. He's dealing with extremely good fly somers. So it's kind of harsh putting the fly split against those guys, but the free stuff split is off sea, the eye watering bits. If you can kind of sustain that every single time, then you're doing something right, but you've got to improve somewhere. So maybe a little bit more easy speed on the fly potentially, but go a little bit stronger. It's little tense of details here. So delicate balance now of knowing you've got what you've got in your pocket for the last 100, but also like if I push a little bit harder at the top, I ruin my secret weapon, not even secret weapon. Might like main weapon here or if it's Asian games and he's not chasing the

30:19clock, for example, he's chasing the field around him. You just sit on everyone's shoulders. Yeah, and just go and until the freestyle, which I actually is, I would hazard, guess what he did when he sat that time? Yeah, I can back at the race. Let's talk one more name then. We've talked a lot in our note here. It's got Shino has you. I think we've spoken a lot about Shino. We have Shino. One more swimmer and it is a very, very junior swimmer. So here on proportions, we don't overly talk about junior swimmers too much when they're coming through the ranks because they don't need the pressure. They don't need the expectation. They need to enjoy the sports swimming. We stand by that a lot here when we talk about bridging swimmers. You can't shy away from a 13-year-old in 200 metres butterfly, maybe 14 now. UZD, who is going to 06, is Dan 205, correct me if I'm wrong. Two of five right now. And the 4am as well to throw into that. So the two fly and the 4am,

31:21both right now in the world of swimming are unhushable world champion, gold medal, Olympic champion. Whatever you want to do crown some of my McIntosh, keep an eye on the user of these pro-rears. Just keep an eye because it's building and building and building and she's so, so young that there could be huge leaps and bounds here and there. I'm not saying she's getting down to some McIntosh's world record in the two fly. Or the 4am. I don't think that's happening, but she could put herself clear second at this meet. Maybe in the 4am. That's really difficult to say. It is difficult because actually the world is pretty good behind somewhere as well. It's really hard for Jennifer for us to do this. That's who I was thinking. Jennifer with a 431 is a very good swimmer. Yeah, anything around there. So she even sees a 420 next to her name. I mean, you're talking territory. Yeah, yeah. I don't know what her favorite event is.

32:21Really? She's just like the sort of next summer McIntosh. She even knows some of McIntosh. She's still what's 21 also. She's stupidly young. Maybe just her number one. Yes, as much as we don't put pressure on young swimmers and again, 13, 14 still at school. Very, very young. Massive pressure on her shoulders. I would imagine because, like swim time, for example, she seems to be the two of us. She's like, they love the world. Over Maxucita over Panzala over all of the names. Yeah, I mean, I know the caption was the youngest medallist at a watch-ampship ever. And that's obviously a massive accolade. But still got a ball record holder and Olympic gold medallist going sort of behind that name of Yuzidi is quite eyebrow-raising. But yeah, definitely watch out for Yuzidi because she's getting quicker all the time. We did a little bit of research beforehand. And basically, roughly speaking, she's going to second-quick every year. So if you kind of do a quick bit of maths then, if that's a 204, we're on that sort of trajectory, I suppose.

33:23It's not always going to be like, that's obviously. No, no. But so it gives you a rough idea where she could be at, which makes LA quite exciting if she's going to be close to some Macintosh, you know. But she's got to get there first. She's got a stand-up. She's got to enjoy it. So, um, pressure doesn't make it hot. She's not going to keep dropping and keep dropping and keep dropping. No, not all the time. No. I would expect some fireworks on hand, but I'm sure she'll do something special. Okay, I think that concludes a very well-winned preview. But hopefully, an in-depth preview enough for everyone to say, okay, I'm going to track these times, head into Asian Games. I'm going to look at what Nagoya has to offer on Tokyo. 2026, it's going to be a big meet. I have no doubt about it because, like we've said, Japanese brushstroke is just on the up. Japanese meddys on the up. Chinese freestyle, Shivon Hori back in the water. Yeah, there's some big stars to come out of here. And then, I mean, not forgetting, we bounce on from these Asian Games to December.

34:24World Short Course Championships is in Beijing. So, I would expect most of these women to bounce straight onto that and have an outstanding short course season. What comes here is in-between that as well. Yeah, in the Silk Grow. I wonder how many of we will see in Silk Grow as well. So, if there's any names that you're looking out for at Asian Games, let us know in the comments section of YouTube. Like, if we've missed anyone, like, I know we haven't talked about like Zang Yufai. You could think, you could think. Yeah. Tang. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, Tang. Well, actually, Tang Goboshalai Stream, we did talk about a bit of addiction for Tang a little bit there. Yeah. Let us know in the comments section on YouTube. I would love to be further educated if there's names that actually we've not quite hit on. Let us know. We will try to watch races as much as possible. As much, like I said, we'll put in the comments section if we find a live stream. I think just YouTube post-race swims is going to be the easiest way to track it. And if there's enough of them, we'll do a review podcast in.

35:25It probably won't be a week's time. It probably will be a little bit more because this is a six-day meet, isn't it? So, it starts on Sunday and on Friday. It's along me, but I mean, it's the same as Commonwealth Games, same as Pampax. Done. We do have some interview podcasts. I've literally just seen a message to book one very, very later night on Sunday. So, we're going to be doing that later night, later night on Saturday. So, we're going to be doing that. We're going to be hitting Australia and time zone, getting... I'm really, really excited to win my own podcast. That'll be live next week. Make sure you're subscribed if you haven't already. And me and Dan will see you in seven days time and on the live stream on Monday night. That's right. If you haven't joined us there yet. Yeah, thank you very much. I'll catch you on the next one.

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