Talk:1000 metres world record progression

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Including the Nazi flag here is silly. How bout changing the US Flag to have the proper number of stars as well? Current flags should be used since sports and politics are separate. Also, normally the purpose is also to show where an athlete is born or where they grew up right? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.97.212.135 (talk) 15:56, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Here's the pattern I have seen us execute, to the best of our cumulative abilities. We show the flag the athlete represented at the time of the performance. USA, the details of 48 vs 50 stars in a 50 pixel icon is probably not perceptible. Germany has gone through a lot of turmoil over the last century, at the center of two world wars, communist separation etc. As a result the flag icons are also changing, not to display the swastika, but to accurately represent what political government was in charge of the country, who provided the uniform to the athlete. If we swayed by the winds of change and used the current flag, lets pose a Soviet example because that area has also undergone such political turmoil. Sergei Bubka would be listed as representing the People's Republic of Donetsk, rather than the reality of the Soviet Union, the made us CIS in 1992 and Ukraine. Trackinfo (talk) 18:28, 11 October 2014 (UTC)