Cam McEvoy believes Australia's astonishing domination of the Commonwealth Games swimming program offers a tantalising glimpse of a gold-laden home Olympics in Brisbane.
And the newly-crowned Glasgow 50m freestyle champion is determined to be one of the trailblazers on that "red-hot runway" to the 2032 Games, promising there's plenty of improvement to come from him.
The world's fastest swimmer demonstrated again in the Tollcross pool, having blasted to the fourth-quickest time in history in 20.97 seconds, just how he's improving like a fine wine, as he again underlined how Brisbane will be on his radar, even at 38.
But while he's hugely encouraged by his own prospects, with the Los Angeles 2028 Games his initial premier target, he's just as enthused by the prospects of a Dolphins team which is sweeping all before them in Scotland.
Australia have won 23 of the first 35 events in the pool over the first four nights, putting them comfortably on track for this to be the swim team's greatest ever Commonwealth Games.
McEvoy has been in awe of the strength in depth of a team packed with both youth and experience.
"Yeah, every year as a team, we go incredibly well. I think we peak every year - and then we come back the year after and we just take one step forward," said McEvoy.
"So it's a really good spot for LA, but even better for Brisbane 2032.
"Our team right now is incredible, but there's a lot of youngsters at the national age-group level, or ones who just missed this team, who will come through in their prime by Brisbane 2032.
"So the runway's looking pretty red-hot."
Of his own prospects, he's "excited" after the "double whammy" of annexing his first Commonwealth 50m free gold, following a previous silver and bronze, while also dipping under 21 seconds for just the second time.
"Knowing it's not a one-off (time under 21 seconds) makes me very confident going into the future," he said.
"By the time LA comes around, it's not so much about doing the best time, it's about getting your hand on the wall first.
"But if the ceiling is high enough, I'll have good confidence to know that I don't have to do a superhuman performance to be in a good shot to medal or to win it."
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McEvoy is ignoring the Pan-Pacific championships, preferring instead to race World Cup short course meetings later this year before the world short course championships and next year's world championships in the 50m pool.
Intriguingly, he adds he's going to try for a spot in the 4x100m relay short course quartet "just to see how I go".
So how fast can the man who holds the world record of 20.88 go?
"I know the time I possibly could go for, so I do have an end goal in mind," he said.
"But I'm going to keep that close to my chest."
