Swimming world records... are they really that meaningful right now?

United States
August 12, 2008 2:36pm CST
It seems like every time there is a competition, there are world records. And not just slight records. Big ones by big margins. Why is this? I know technology keeps improving, but by that much? It seems like swimming world records hold very little meaning because of this. When they happen all the time, how special can they really be? It's not like other pure athletic events. You don't see world records falling in most events very often. Its been over a decade for some events!
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newar18
@newar18 (24)
• United States
12 Aug 08
It seems like with people like Michael Phelps they started swimming competitively at a young age and their coaches trained them knowing that it is now possible to achieve the speeds that are required to get a orld record so they train them to beat it and maybe the swimming ones get beat so often because it's like track records that keep getting broken by the next generation.