Tomoyuki Matsushita

Yeah.

Japan threw together a heck of a relay [laughs] and obviously China clearly did too, but Tomoyuki Matsushita, it's like we, we, we hyped him up so much, and we'll-

Mm

... continue to hype him up.

But again, we never know.

We, we talk- we didn't know that Tomoyuki Matsushita was gonna be so incredible coming into this, coming into these games.

I was just about to say his name.

Yeah.

Like, he's that good, and, uh, it, it's- I feel almost bad for him because he swims the IMs, and that's what he's best known for, and so does Leon Marchand.

[laughs]

Because, like, when you think of the IMs, the first name you're thinking of is Leon Marchand right now, but Tomoyuki Matsushita should be, like, that second name that you think about.

Um-

It was a pretty quick podium, and she was only 14/100 of a second off the bronze medal, so it will be interesting to see where she's at with her general speed in the 50 butterfly and the 100 butterfly this year at the Asian Games, and what that could potentially mean for her plans in 2028.

A swimmer that we've talked a lot about in the very short history of this podcast is Japanese swimmer Tomoyuki Matsushita because he just kept having really good timing with when he was going really, really fast IM swims.

So since we've talked at length about him, I'm not gonna talk too much about him here.

But for a refresher, he did very recently go times of both 4:05:83 in the 400 IM and 1:55:51 in the 200 IM, which makes him now the 4th and 14th fastest performers of all time in both those events, with obviously the 400 IM being the much more eye, you know, attention-grabbing one of those two.

Not this specifically though that would be a funny series right see see how long Ledecky can pull against a smaller weight or something like that uh but just in general reaching outside of the normal swimming audience because obviously this YouTube channel is not an audience full of competitive swim fans.

There's probably a lot of people who are familiar with the Olympics and Olympic swimming and will hop in and watch that you know the kind of general casual swim fan and you know Dressel is a very charismatic swimmer he's really able to get his personality across very just enjoyable to watch on screen he's really good at interviews and stuff like that so he's a good candidate for this to have you know just showing oh man this this swimmer seems pretty cool and you know if you're able to I think it's good for swimmers to get their face out there more especially not during an Olympic year to kind of build that general you know that that personal brand is good for them and then kind of trickles along and is good for the sport as a whole if you have more swimmers in the public eye you might slowly increase the stock of the sport as a whole that's just something I believe for a long time and this video is performing very well it's currently sitting at 1.9 million views a little less than a week of being uploaded that is a slightly inflated number because of YouTube monkeying with view counts but still relative to other things on the channel it is a high performer it's also an incredible thumbnail if you go check it out we're gonna hop back on over to Japan and for the second week in a row I need to talk about Tomoyuki Matsushita because last week we talked about how he dropped a very fast 405 83 in the 400 IM which made him the fourth fastest performer of all time in that discipline he also had a new personal best after that in the 200 IM now isn't as comparatively impressive as his 400 IM but it's still very quick he dropped a 155 51 he's now the 14th fastest performer of all time and he is the second fastest Japanese swimmer ever his old PB was a 155 60 so just like in the 400 IM he has been on a nice improvement curve and the 200 IM is increasingly getting very very stacked you know we have obviously Leon Marchand last year set the world record in the event Hubert Koch had that 154 24 I already talked about you know Hugo Gonzalez was a 154 44 right behind him Shane Casas has been incredibly quick Carson Foster's always been around Tomoyuki Matsushita is now going and is trying to insert himself into this conversation very very interesting things happening and I think if you can get a stacked field in a 200 IM that could be a very fun race to watch I think the 200 IM has the potential to be one of the most fun races to watch if you have a deep enough field and you have enough I I am a sucker for lead changes, right? And I think the 200 IM is maybe one of the best events for that outside of a relay.

But I think that always makes for when you don't have no idea who's going to win.

We have a bunch of swimmers that are close in speed.

And I feel like we're going and trending more in that direction just with these kind of added depth of the men's 200 IM right now.

Definitely an event to keep your eye out for over the next, you know, year or two.

And for Tomoyuki Matsushita in general, keep an eye out for him because he does have the Asian Games coming up at the end of the month, and they are going to be a home Asian Games for him.

So let's see if he can continue his ridiculous trajectory that he's had in the IM events.

Um, so let's just start off that.

Tomoyuki Matsushita came to Irvine, California at Pan Pacs, dominated, won both IMs, 400 and 200.

Then went to, I don't know, the 102nd high school Japanese prefecture something something.

He-

Also today, every, every topic is a sink or swim, as we did last week.

It's all sink or swim.

And so, uh, my proposed sink or swim to you, Taren, is, um, will Tomoyuki Matsushita own two Asian records by the end of Asian Games?

Yes.

We also have a few big swims coming out of Japan.

At first it was just Shinohashi, but this episode is a little late, so now Tomoyuki Matsushita is in here too with his more recent swim.

We also have one of the greatest backstrokers of all time, Kaylee McEwen, announcing that she won't be competing at some pretty big upcoming meets.

But let's get into it.

Being just that fast is absolutely ridiculous.

And again, since it took me a little bit of time to get around to this episode, just had another big swim from another Japanese swimmer.

This one is from Tomoyuki Matsushita, who was swimming during the Japanese Intercollegiate Swimming Championships, and he had a massive swim in the 400 IM.

There he clocked a 4.05.83. That is really, really fast.