I have a question about world records and non-textile suits

I'm pretty ignorant about this subject so I appreciate your feedback to this basic question. If the non-textile suits are now illegal, why are world records that were set in them still recognized? Your question accentuates the problem of how a previously "unmechanized" athletic activity (that required only a bare minimum of clothing to perform -no pun intended) became complicated by the introduction of "suit technology". Trying to revisit the issue of whether the world records (gained through suit technology) should remain is going to be a rather messy process (like a cat trying scratch up a pile of you-know-what on a marble floor). So just for the sake of not making an even bigger mess, the past records should just be allowed to remain. However my opinion for the future is to go back to the 70"s and 80's era suits and see how records are set with everyone playing on a level field (a level pool to be exact). That would fianlly get the the can of worms sealed up. :worms: D2

I'm pretty ignorant about this subject so I appreciate your feedback to this basic question. If the non-textile suits are now illegal, why are world records that were set in them still recognized? Your question accentuates the problem of how a previously "unmechanized" athletic activity (that required only a bare minimum of clothing to perform -no pun intended) became complicated by the introduction of "suit technology". Trying to revisit the issue of whether the world records (gained through suit technology) should remain is going to be a rather messy process (like a cat trying scratch up a pile of you-know-what on a marble floor). So just for the sake of not making an even bigger mess, the past records should just be allowed to remain. However my opinion for the future is to go back to the 70"s and 80's era suits and see how records are set with everyone playing on a level field (a level pool to be exact). That would fianlly get the the can of worms sealed up. :worms: D2