SCYfreestyler.....
I thought this was a swimming forum for discussions of items related to swimming..... not necessarily world events.
Geek,
You are missing the point and the direction of my disgust. I never said that we should punish the current swimmers. I disagree with the US swimming's approval of the extent of rule changes compared to their effects on record keeping the laset 15 years. One affects the other tremendously and in the last 15 years it appears there is little regard or respect for past performances when setting these rule changes other than to generate a degree of false improvement level in the sport. This is not to say that there are no advancements in the sport and that kids are not training their butts off.... they are !! (incidently, my 12 year old son is kickin' butt here in Colorado. Just went 5:00 for a 500) I certainly feel swimming has faster performances even if you net all these items out.... but not as by as much as you would like to think.
I don't see any point in record keeping when the rules change so significantly. You say I want to penalize the new generation. Not at all. You, however, seem to want to penalize the former established performers. You say you respect the old guard, but you'd rather see a so called "improvement" in the sport negate what they have accomplished in the record books.
Actually, I would fully support these type of rule and technology changes if we decided to get rid of American and World Record keeping altogether. But it's too misleading to compare performances now to then and wipe older respected names off the books year after year when the changes to the sport are merely to make it easier to go faster, not slower.
Lindsay,
Whats wrong with noting in the record books that post 1970s records are performed with goggles. Is that REALLY a punishment to the record holders in the 1970s? Geek thinks an asterisk is a punishment.
John Smith
SCYfreestyler.....
I thought this was a swimming forum for discussions of items related to swimming..... not necessarily world events.
Geek,
You are missing the point and the direction of my disgust. I never said that we should punish the current swimmers. I disagree with the US swimming's approval of the extent of rule changes compared to their effects on record keeping the laset 15 years. One affects the other tremendously and in the last 15 years it appears there is little regard or respect for past performances when setting these rule changes other than to generate a degree of false improvement level in the sport. This is not to say that there are no advancements in the sport and that kids are not training their butts off.... they are !! (incidently, my 12 year old son is kickin' butt here in Colorado. Just went 5:00 for a 500) I certainly feel swimming has faster performances even if you net all these items out.... but not as by as much as you would like to think.
I don't see any point in record keeping when the rules change so significantly. You say I want to penalize the new generation. Not at all. You, however, seem to want to penalize the former established performers. You say you respect the old guard, but you'd rather see a so called "improvement" in the sport negate what they have accomplished in the record books.
Actually, I would fully support these type of rule and technology changes if we decided to get rid of American and World Record keeping altogether. But it's too misleading to compare performances now to then and wipe older respected names off the books year after year when the changes to the sport are merely to make it easier to go faster, not slower.
Lindsay,
Whats wrong with noting in the record books that post 1970s records are performed with goggles. Is that REALLY a punishment to the record holders in the 1970s? Geek thinks an asterisk is a punishment.
John Smith
