Split Time Returns With Discussion on World Records Post-Tech Suit Era
January 6, 2010
Split Time: What To Do With the World Records,
Part Two: Craig Lord and Garrett McCaffrey Offer Thoughts
January 13, 2010
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My sympathies are with the swimmers who trained hard (often for years) and abided with the rules allowing tech suits, resulting in a world record swim. To delete their records would be to diminish the effort they put forth.
My sympathies are also with the swimmers who trained hard (often for years) and abided with the rules, prior to the advent of tech suits, resulting in a world record swim that was erased by someone in a tech suit. To dismiss their records (which has already occurred) diminishes the effort they put forth.
Both records (i.e., records with tech suits and those without) should stand together until a world record time without a tech suit surpasses the world record time with a tech suit. It will happen, possibly within the coming decade.
My sympathies are with the swimmers who trained hard (often for years) and abided with the rules allowing tech suits, resulting in a world record swim. To delete their records would be to diminish the effort they put forth.
My sympathies are also with the swimmers who trained hard (often for years) and abided with the rules, prior to the advent of tech suits, resulting in a world record swim that was erased by someone in a tech suit. To dismiss their records (which has already occurred) diminishes the effort they put forth.
Both records (i.e., records with tech suits and those without) should stand together until a world record time without a tech suit surpasses the world record time with a tech suit. It will happen, possibly within the coming decade.
