The Tokyo Olympics are about to start, and there is almost no suspense in the swimming event, which is the men's 100-meter breaststroke, and the British star Pitty has an absolute advantage in this event. Before the Olympics began, Pitty revealed his goal, not only to win the Olympic gold medal, but also to try to improve the 100m breaststroke to about 56.1 seconds, which means he will break the world record again.
Since making her debut at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, Pitty has become the undisputed hegemon of the men's 100m breaststroke. He won almost every major event in seven years, winning the 100m breaststroke for the fourth consecutive time at the European Championships in May. Pitty's current world record for 100 frogs is 56.88 seconds, and the athlete closest to him in terms of performance is The Netherlands' Kaminga, whose best time is 1.02 seconds slower than Pitti's world record, which is the 57.90 seconds he swam in April, and he also became the second athlete in the world to swim 58 seconds in the 100 frogs.
Pitty has swum within 58 seconds on 17 occasions in his career, 16 of the best results in 100 frog history have been maintained by Pitty, and 18 of the top 20 good results belong to him. In the men's 100m breaststroke this year, Pitti finished first with a time of 57.39 seconds, and his goal at the Olympics is to defend his title of 100m breaststroke champion. If Pitty can successfully defend his title, he will become the second athlete to successfully defend the Olympic 100m breaststroke title after Japanese legend Kosuke Kitajima. Kitajima won both the men's 100m breaststroke and the 200m breaststroke at both athens and 2008 in Beijing.
For Pitty, the Tokyo Olympics are not just gold medals, he is also thinking of setting a new world record, and his goal is to hit 56.1 seconds. "If I can do every link well, the best 50m ride so far, the best 25m ride, and do the best in all aspects." Then the score may be lower than 56 seconds, or around 56.1 seconds. Pitty said.
Pitti's goal is to win gold and break world records, and for China's frog king Yan Zibei, his goal is to storm the Olympic medals. At the 2019 Gwangju World Championships, Yan Zibei set a new Asian record in the final with 58.63 seconds and won a bronze medal, which he also hopes to win at the Olympic Games.
However, from the results of these two years, the level of men's 100-meter breaststroke has improved rapidly, and Yan Zibei's difficulty in winning the card is not small. In FINA statistics, this year's second only to Pitty is the Netherlands' Kaminga, the best time is 58.10 seconds, and the United States' Andrew is 58.14 seconds upstream at the National Olympic Trials, ranking third in the world. Yan Zibei's best time this year was only 59.21 seconds, which can only be ranked 13th. According to this ranking, Yan Zibei can reach the final in the Olympic Games is already a success. Yan Zibei's career best time is 58.63 seconds, which can only rank 8th in the world this year, and it seems that the impact of the final is a more reasonable goal.
Of course, for Yan Zibei, one of his more important events may be the men's and women's 4×100 medley relay, which is a punch event that the Chinese team values very much. At present, the Chinese team holds the world record for this project, and judging from the performance of the American team in the Olympic Trials, their lineup strength should be slightly stronger than the Chinese team. For the Chinese team, the lineup of this project has long been determined, in order to have a stronger competitiveness, Xu Jiayu and Yan Zibei, the two male players, need to swim to the highest level, otherwise it will become difficult for the Chinese team to win medals.