What You Should Do ？ If Manage to Break A World Record of Olympics

The ghost WR line in swimming is cool. Imagine setting the WR and seeing your ghost line in use 40 years from now because nobody could break it.
And the bronze medal is brought to you by Natural Light. It's technically a medal, just not as good as the others, just like Natural Light is technically a beer! The protagonist refuses to partake in the race, but he can't abandon swimming either - that's not what his father would have wanted. So he decides to wait 10 seconds after the timer has started to swim. He can't guarantee that the others won't break the world record, but at least he has done his part.

This reminds me of a comment I read once (I think on YouTube) where this guy was talking about how he used to play a racing game growing up with his dad. His dad died while he was still young, so he put the game away. After a while he broke it out and started playing it again and every course he did had a little ghost car racing on it - it was a simulation of the run for the console's record holder for each course. Because the OP was little when he played with his dad, OP held none of the course records — they were all set by his father before he died. He said once he almost beat one of the records and stopped right in front of the finish line so the ghost of his dads car wouldn't be deleted, so he could keep playing with his dad. I was devastated to read that.

There is one platinum per event, all time. Like the baseball HOF, each living member of the platinum podium is honored at an opening ceremony. Should a record be broken, the record holder can pass the platinum after the anthems. Like the Stanley cup, the names and record are etched on the back as a living history.The right approach might be to ignore the World Record altogether (since that is regularly broken at non-Olympic events), and instead focus on the Olympic Record. Also make it separate from the medal system altogether - perhaps a ceremonial cup that could be held by a non-medal winning individual.

Some WR they are competing for were set in 2008 and lower. I don't have a specific Olympic year that was worse than the rest, but not every year is always better or faster.This makes me wonder has there ever been an Olympics that was across the board less impressive then the previous one? I always just imagined that the records and performance always improved with every 4 years.