Is it true that prosthetic limbs make you faster and if so why isnt the world record for events like the 100 meter faster than the regular?
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I just want to add a warning not to conflate a prosthesis with an orthotic. The former replaces a missing limb, the later augments an existing limb. You may have seen those crazy boots that prop a runner on spring-steel leg extensions, granting a person the ability to run upwards of 25 mph with no particular athletic training. That is an orthotic.
And why there isn’t a world record, well, you’ll have to ask Guinness or other certifying bodies. This part of your question is too broad. There’s all sorts of 100m records, you just have to define this one in a way that makes sense. What kind of prosthetic or orthotic? How about one with jet engines? See the problem? How do you define and constrain record categories so that they make sense without an utter proliferation of definitions?
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