www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../19679.asp
The most substantial change, of course, is that suits would no longer be allowed to extend past the knee.
My personal opinion is this is sort of an arbitrary change. What really should be changed--if anything--is what types of materials are allowed and maybe testing protocol to approve a suit. I don't really think requiring suits to end at the knees would affect much.
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I can't imagine that would happen. I don't know of a single rule change in the history of the sport that invalidated current records.
Not sure about swimming, but in Track & Field, when they changed the javelin design so it would not fly as far (it was getting dangerous), they invalidated the WR and started over.
-LBJ
I can't imagine that would happen. I don't know of a single rule change in the history of the sport that invalidated current records.
Not sure about swimming, but in Track & Field, when they changed the javelin design so it would not fly as far (it was getting dangerous), they invalidated the WR and started over.
-LBJ
