I feel like they don't look up to us. Can I say that? Tonight, seeing a 46.4 second 100 freestyle be swum next to me.
Having written history two days ago, today again. It's very meaningful to our country. Because it's the first time for Chinese people to break through history on another project. The goalpost has definitely been shifted that... They don't look up to us.
But today, they finally got all of us. Pan Zhanli of China has shocked the world, breaking the world record in the 100 meter freestyle at the Paris Olympics. The first and potentially only world record that we might see at these games.
How did he get it done? How did he swim so fast? Was this a clean race?
These are all the things that we're going to unpack in this video today because there is so much hype and drama at these Olympics. I can't wait to go ahead and get in with you, with you guys. This is the reason why all the drama. This is Pan right there.
He won the 100-meter freestyle in not only a world record time that just shattered his own world record, but he won the 100-meter freestyle in over a second. And this race is not normally won by margins of a second. It's normally hundreds of a second. You can see all of these swimmers vying for the second position, the silver medal. Literally everyone is in the race, but there is one man way ahead of the field.
and he is flying at the wall. I mean, 44 seconds on the clock, and he is inside of the flags, five meters to go. Absolutely unbelievable. I've done a full recap on this in other videos, so go make sure you can check that out. Just to give you guys a little bit more context as to how ridiculous this is, we're gonna go through it real quick, play by play, stroke by stroke.
Here's the start. We gotta keep an eye on Pan. He's right there in lane number four. He was the number one qualifier in the semifinal.
That's why he's in lane four. Kyle Chalmers from Australia. is a two-time medalist in this event.
He won this event in the 2016 Olympics. He got silver in this event in the last Olympics in Tokyo. And he's right there, the number two qualifier.
We also have to keep an eye on Popovic up there in lane two from Romania. He won the 200-meter freestyle at the Paris Olympics. And just a month ago, he threatened the world record in this event.
So you know he's going to be dangerous. Now, as we look at our lane assignments from a different angle, there is Pan right there in lane four. He's the guy to watch.
And right away from the very beginning, Pan was off to a blazing start, moving at almost 2 meters per second. You can already see how much distance he has over the speed. 1.92 meters per second to 1.97 meters per second. He's pulling away, and he's just going to run away with it. And so you can see here, on the way back, this is at 28 seconds into the race.
They've already done the flip turn. He's holding 1.99 meters per second, way faster than everyone else in the field. You can already see right here, he's getting some separation on the field.
He has about a half body length lead. with about 20 seconds to go. And as we head into the finish, again, maintaining his speed all the way through the race, he now has almost a full body length lead, about three quarter body length lead.
And by the time they get into the finish, about eight seconds later, it's all over. And he comes into the wall with an absolute monster body length lead, destroying the world record. He clocks a 46.40.
If you guys remember, his prior world record was a 46. 0.80 that he made at the World Championships just a few months ago earlier this year, and he chopped off another four tenths faster than anyone has ever been. It is insane. Now, there has been a lot of drama and smack talk, and I hope you guys really watch this video until the very end, because we're going to uncover a lot of things you probably didn't know.
We're going to go into details here that you probably are not aware of, that people are not showing on the internet. I don't know for whatever reason, but that's why I appreciate you guys here for the full details. Now, how significant of a race is this?
Because to win... by over a second in the 100 freestyle is disgusting. It is ridiculous. It is a margin that we don't normally see in swimming. But you know what?
We actually do see this because just an hour before this swim was done, we saw something very similar. Do you see what this is? This is Katie Ledecky and she is winning by an even bigger margin.
She is absolutely destroying the field. Now you might say, okay, this is a 1500. She's been swimming for 15 minutes, but look, the other people are swimming in the other direction. These girls are literally swimming in this direction. This is second place. She is destroying the field.
And when we see it's done by an American, what do we say? She's the greatest of all time. You know who else did this?
Leon Marchand in the 400 IM. We call him the greatest of all time. We've seen Michael Phelps as a teenager dropping the hammer.
But when it comes to a different swimmer who's never tested positive, all of a sudden we point the finger because we don't believe it. And we need to check ourselves and make sure we're not just being racist for the sake of saying, you know what? If we didn't do it, they can't do it either.
So we have to keep that in mind. Because when we look at the splits, there really isn't anything that out of the ordinary about it other than it's just really fast. When you look at the splits, when you look at how he took it out, he took it out in a 22.2. We've seen him done this before.
He went out 22.2 when he went to 46.8 at the World Championships. Where he came back, and this is the big improvement, 24.12. I mean, even the great Kyle Chalmers, who has an amazing back half, he was a 24.4 on the way back.
But that separation was still over a second. Now, you might be thinking, how does he have so much speed and so much ability to come back on the second half of the race? This is not human. He must be taking something.
Well, you know what? Innocent until proven guilty. So I don't know why you guys are calling drama. The guy has an aerobic foundation. For crying out loud, he swam the 1500 growing up as an age grouper.
He's only 19 years old. The sky is the limit for him, for Popovich. These guys have so much more to go.
Are they going to go 45 seconds? I don't know. Probably not. But we definitely can see more 46s.
in their future. And you can see the excitement. He's pumped up.
The dude is only 19 years old, but people are quick to smack talk. And here's an example of the smack talk that you see right there. And because of the comments that have been made about this swim, slamming him because they are accusing him of taking performance enhancing drugs when the man has never tested positive and he's being drug tested all the time. Are you telling me he was taking drugs when he was 12, 13, 14, 15 years old?
Of course, it's a possibility. But again, that's never been proven. So why are you saying that?
So we gotta make sure we are respectful of athletes regardless of where they are. And I hope you guys show some respect in the comments because that's where I want this discussion to really engage. Make sure you share this video and let's go ahead and break it down one layer deeper for you guys because there is a lot more to this story that we need to uncover. So I'm gonna go ahead and pull off my iPad and we're gonna pull up some results that you guys probably don't know about Pan. This is his bio.
You can go on Wikipedia. You can look this up. He's only 19 years old. And if you look at his records down here at the bottom, look at the accolades that he has. This is the most recent.
This is from the Paris Olympics that we just saw. Look at his world championship hardware. That's where he went 46.8.
He didn't like come out of nowhere. And then look at how he performed way down here at the Asian Games. Now this says 2022 at the Asian Games in Hangzhou. I've been to China three times.
The third time, the second time I went was Hangzhou. Amazing city, amazing atmosphere where they hosted those Asian Games. Because of COVID, they actually delayed it. So that was like last year.
So when you look at all these splits, all these times, all these results, let's actually take one step closer. How fast did he go last year? Is he really just coming out of nowhere as a 19-year-old? No, the kid was really fast as a teenager, even before that. And the truth is in the numbers.
Let's go ahead and pull some up. This is the 400 freestyle final. The guy went to 348 last year.
So imagine if he swam this again, he'd probably be contending. for a podium position if he swam the 400 free at these Olympics in Paris. Let's take a look at how he did in the 200 freestyle.
He went to 145.2. Again, he was definitely a medal contender. He missed out on making it on the podium in the 200 free in an individual race. Obviously, we can tell he was focusing on the 100 freestyle instead.
When we take a look at his relay performance at those Asian Games, he let off in a 47.0 last year. So even when we see him go a 46.8, It's not that surprising because he's a teenager and he dropped 0.28 off of his time from a year ago. When you're a teenager, you should be dropping time every single year, especially as a male, as you continue to grow, to continue to put on muscle. I'm just thinking about myself when I was 17 versus 19. I think I gained like 10 pounds and I didn't grow.
I just filled out my body. That's exactly what we're seeing here with this 19-year-old swimmer. And then, of course, we have the 200 medley relay and we see him splitting a 46.6.
Let me repeat that. The guy went 46.6. He's like 18 years old.
We should respect speed when we see it. And it's unfortunate that a lot of people are criticizing for no reason when the guy is producing serious speed. It's just because he wins by such a significant margin.
But we've seen it done in sports. We've seen it done with Katie Ledecky, Michael Phelps, Leon Marchand, other great swimmers. Let me know what you guys think down below in the comments.
I know a lot of smack talk has happened about the pool not even being fast. And if he can go 46.4... in a slow pool, does that mean he has a 45 in him?
Does that mean he has even more speed? As we saw in the 50 freestyle prelims, in the shorter sprint events, if you have clean water, you're going to be riding fast. This is a relatively fast pool.
Maybe it's not the fastest pool in the world, but it's fast enough. Now you want to hear a little bit more commentary about why the pool maybe isn't so fast or why the athletes haven't been performing at the very fastest that we've seen. Make sure you check out this video right over here.
I'll see you over there and catch you at the next live stream. Happy swimming.