For the non-Americans in the comments: When most Americans see individual sports, like track and field, swimming, etc... They're going to assume it's the Olympics because these types of sports receive absolutely zero coverage in this country outside of that format. Even the concept of league-based team sports(like soccer) having seperate competitions outside of domestic league play is a completely foriegn idea to them 😂
This world record will be the hardest one to break. Keep in mind that in this world champs Michael Phelps broke the 200m fly world record at the time and he did 1:51.51. Piersol did 1:51.92 in 200m backstroke thats insane!!! Nobody has ever come close to that. 1:51.92 is really fucking fast for 200m backstroke