We're talking about multiple tenths of seconds, possibly even whole
seconds for longer events. The advantage is that significant.

There will doubtless still be some records when the swimsuits are
banned, given that you will get some superior athletes coming through
afterwards, but the rate will be lower than it was before these suits
came in, and some records will doubtless stand for a long time. My
only lack of certainty is over the possibility that some of the
records have been set by athletes who are markedly better than the
rest of their generation, so would have been setting these records
anyway.

Chris

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Marechiare <marechiare@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you're asking why so many have been set
>>> recently, then that is almost certainly because
>>> of the suit technology,
>>
>> Yes, but the thread is about how much "almost certainly".
>
> We are talking about tens of seconds here -- maybe hundreds.
>
> Tamas
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