The arbitrary establishiment of rules to make former record holders feel more important only cheapens both their records and those of current record holders. Creating multiple systems of records within a sport is a terrible idea and would be viewed with the same skepticism that the doping era has brought onto baseball which, oddly enough, you seek to emulate with your asterisk idea.
Records are meant to be broken and every record holder knows that. If all it takes to forget a swimmer is to have their record broken, maybe they weren't such an asset to swimming in the first place.
Good swimming by your son, btw. No asterisk for him, that's straight up speedy swimming.
The arbitrary establishiment of rules to make former record holders feel more important only cheapens both their records and those of current record holders. Creating multiple systems of records within a sport is a terrible idea and would be viewed with the same skepticism that the doping era has brought onto baseball which, oddly enough, you seek to emulate with your asterisk idea.
Records are meant to be broken and every record holder knows that. If all it takes to forget a swimmer is to have their record broken, maybe they weren't such an asset to swimming in the first place.
Good swimming by your son, btw. No asterisk for him, that's straight up speedy swimming.
