What WR will last the longest?

96 was a really dry year -- Many of the new records have been the result of the improvments in dolphin kicks and rule changes. The Freestyle records seem to have had much more longevity compared to all the strokes. It goes Jager to Popov to Tech suits /// or Biondi to Hoogenband to Tech suits // East German to Van Almsick to Pelligrini / Evans to Manaudou . I think we are close to running out of rule changes, but there still seems to be some room for a new generation of kids that grew up learning the dolphin kicks as youngsters. On the other hand some of the psychological barriers may have now fallen ... it may have never occurred to 100 Fliers to shoot for a sub 50 sec or sub 52 for a 100 Back ... If they go really "old-school", we will see 5 or less records in 2012... just my guess.

96 was a really dry year -- Many of the new records have been the result of the improvments in dolphin kicks and rule changes. The Freestyle records seem to have had much more longevity compared to all the strokes. It goes Jager to Popov to Tech suits /// or Biondi to Hoogenband to Tech suits // East German to Van Almsick to Pelligrini / Evans to Manaudou . I think we are close to running out of rule changes, but there still seems to be some room for a new generation of kids that grew up learning the dolphin kicks as youngsters. On the other hand some of the psychological barriers may have now fallen ... it may have never occurred to 100 Fliers to shoot for a sub 50 sec or sub 52 for a 100 Back ... If they go really "old-school", we will see 5 or less records in 2012... just my guess.