> 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.

Yes, I think you are right.

> 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.

"markedly better" is too vague. First class swimmers' techniques
differ greatly, as for me, from what I've checked out on YouTube. And,
at any moment we may expect a new combination of  technique /
mental-physical partameters to step down the timings.
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