ELI5 How have Olympic gymnasts improved so much from back in the day.

Question

I was watching old gymnast clips on YouTube and the routines look extremely simple compared to the level of acrobatics that go on in modern day gymnastics. Why does it seem like now gymnasts are able to do incredible feats that people didn’t do before.

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Answer 1

Training techniques have improved. The technology accessible to help athletes have improved. Those old gymnasts are coaches now, so they are able to teach the new ones their old routines and improve on them. The cycle then repeats.

Hope this helps.