As I understand it, we’re partly breaking speed/jumping records because of equipment: better shoes or whatever will make a huge difference.
Not trying to belittle their achievements, but to me somebody breaking a weightlifting world record is a little more impressive, as presumably everything is identical every time except the person themselves?
How are we still breaking those sorts of records? Better training? Are we artificially selecting for better weightlifters (ie, olympic weightlifters have olympic weightlifting kids)?
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body specialization and technology. We have a lot of people to choose from now and we pick people who’s bodies are perfect for whatever sport they are doing. Secondly technology, the track they’re running on, the pole they’re using, their shoes, their vitamins blah blah blah. There’s a super cool ted talk about it
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