FINA says Dubai Charter doesn't apply to Masters

The home run record set by Roger Maris was designated by an asterisk for many years. Maris hit 61* in a 162 game season, Ruth hit 60 in a 154 game season. This is incorrect. There was never an asterisk applied to Maris' record. In fact MLB never even had an official record book until recently. Here's a link that explains it. What's wrong with having two sets of WR's? I'd say because it goes against the very nature of what a record is supposed to mean--the fastest official time swum. Some of the 160 plus WR's swum in flotation suits, will probably not be broken for decades, when we go back to regular tech suits. In my opinion this won't be the case. Once that bar has been set swimmers will continue to swim close to that fast. There won't be the record assault we've had in the last year or two, but I doubt it will take "decades" for any of the current records to fall even if FINA decides to return to no tech suits whatsoever.

The home run record set by Roger Maris was designated by an asterisk for many years. Maris hit 61* in a 162 game season, Ruth hit 60 in a 154 game season. This is incorrect. There was never an asterisk applied to Maris' record. In fact MLB never even had an official record book until recently. Here's a link that explains it. What's wrong with having two sets of WR's? I'd say because it goes against the very nature of what a record is supposed to mean--the fastest official time swum. Some of the 160 plus WR's swum in flotation suits, will probably not be broken for decades, when we go back to regular tech suits. In my opinion this won't be the case. Once that bar has been set swimmers will continue to swim close to that fast. There won't be the record assault we've had in the last year or two, but I doubt it will take "decades" for any of the current records to fall even if FINA decides to return to no tech suits whatsoever.