Ilya Kharun

Like it's, I think that was great.

Ilya Karun in his vert will qualify for his first senior us national team.

Right.

Yeah.

Um, but, uh, in terms of.

um men like superstars on the men's side i think especially short course beaners jack and van really made a statement and i think if they can carry this momentum into beijing um i think that will do a lot for that credibility and hopefully for that dominance as well

yeah i like another guy i wanted to throw in in my brain was ilya karun now But I can't say that because the butterfly events across the world are very difficult.

They are deep on the men's side.

And we are going to see the main headline matchup is between the two swimmers that are entered with short course entry times.

And those are Ilya Harun and and Caleb Dressel those are both some big names Ilya just a day or two ago officially became eligible to represent the United States in international competition which you know he announced the move that he was going to be doing that for a while but there's just a waiting period from the last time he represented Canada so now he is a Officially, in terms of sporting nationality, an American is going to be competing to represent the Team USA on his first ever major international team.

He should qualify.

That's not really that big of a question.

We have our 1500 freestyle champion, Katie McCarthy, as the other long course into time with an 833-94.

This should be another good showdown in the men's 50 butterfly.

We got Ilya Harun as our number one seed.

He probably is going to end up being the one who takes the title here.

It's definitely one of the best races on the men's side.

I think the biggest storyline of the meet for the men is Ilya Karun being eligible to race and represent for the United States.

And he has got some good competition coming in.

and the men's hundred fly top, top few seeds, Ilya Karun, Caleb Dressel, Dari Rose, and Luca Orlando, all short course beasts and all like all have kind of a sweet spot in the hundred fly.

We were talking about actually yesterday, this kind of isn't Ilya Karun sweet spot.

It seems like he can really do the 50 and really do the 200.

And it's not that he's bad at the hundred.

Yeah, this is going to be really interesting.

If that, I think it would be a, I think it'll be a great meet.

There's a lot of little storylines kind of in this me, one of which that I I'll just start with Ilya Karun racing his first meet as an American official member as yeah.

USA swimming.

So well, I guess since he was on the junior

Almost ever.

I mean, those are definitely two of the most notable, notable absences.

And just quickly on the topic of Ilya Karun defending, defending short course world champion in the two fly defending work, defending silver medalist in the 50 fly.

which is kind of funny.