Blair Evans struggling to make Commonwealth Games trials Shaun McManus, Shelley Taylor-Smith, Simon Huitenga, Rhys Mainstone, Blair Evans, and Andrew Embley on the South Perth foreshore promoting the Swim the Swan, a part of the BHP Billiton Auqatic Super Series. Photo: Brad Elborough WA middle distance swimmer Blair Evans says she has only a slight chance of being fit in time to compete for the 2014 Commonwealth Games trials. Evans, 22, a member of the silver medal-winning 4 x 200m freestyle team from the London Olympics, has a bulging disc in her neck and is currently not even training in the pool. Despite the Australian Championships not being held in Brisbane until April, Evans says she will be pushing it to be race fit in time to compete. Shaun McManus and Andrew Embley get ready to tackle the strong wind in a race in aquatic zorb balls on the Swan River promoting the Swim the Swan, a part of the BHP Billiton Auqatic Super Series. Instead the Olympic Games in Rio, in 2016 are a more realistic goal for her. Evans will also miss the BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series, being held in Perth in February, an event in which she is an ambassador for. "I had an MRI two weeks ago and I have another bulging disc in neck; I missed the event last year as well, with the same injury," she said on the Perth foreshore on Wednesday while promoting the Super Series. It will be another six to eight weeks before I get the all clear [to start swimming again]. Evans joined former AFL players Andrew Embley and Shaun McManus, Australian open water swimmers Rhys Mainstone and Simon Huitenga and former World Marathon Swimming Champion Shelley Taylor-Smith in South Perth on to help raise the profile of the Eventscorp-sponsored Aquatic Super Series. The event will be held at a number of venues in Perth over three days starting January 31. The second edition of the event has seen Japan and Brazil teams join China, South Africa and Australia. While Australia, Croatia and China will compete in a water polo tournament. The Swim the Swan event, on February 2, will also allow the general public to head into the water alongside some of the world's best swimmers. Swim The Swan will see swimmers race over five distances - 500 metres, 1.25 kilometres, 2.5 kilometres, 5 kilometres and the Olympic Marathon distance of 10 kilometres for a share of more than $100,000 in prize money. The course starts and finishes at the Barrack Street Jetty, and hugs the city shoreline as swimmers get the rare opportunity to swim looking up at the Perth skyline. Mainstone won the 10 kilometre event last year and will defend his title. He welcomes the stronger field, which looks likely to include Olympic champion at this event, Ousa Mellouli. "I'm really excited; we're getting a lot of international interest about coming over," he said. I'm ready to defend my title and see how we go. A lot of people don't like the jellies (in the Swan River) but I really like the jellyfish. Plus the swell and the Fremantle Doctor coming through - all the conditions can pile up and make it difficult and that's what I like. The difficult conditions were on display on the Swan on Wednesday. Mainstone beat the wind and Huitenga in a short race in aquatic zorb balls, which saw the competitors blown off course and regularly back to shore. Embley finished third and McManus fourth - but without the assistance of rope holders, the footballers would still be trying to complete the on course and would probably be three-quarters of the way to Fremantle. Embley says he is no swimmer, while McManus is believed to be handy in the pool and said he would be competing in the Swim the Swan. He is also rumoured be competing on a radio team for the corporate relay event. For more information, visit www.aquaticsuperseries.com.au.