Like, is there going to be a point where someone sets the *final* record for the 100m and no amount of training, sports science, or equipment innovation will help athletes go any faster? If so, how close do you think we are to someone hitting that limit?
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By definition if we can set a record, a human can do it. There probably won’t be a “final record.”
We are pretty close to hitting the limits of human capacity, each subsequent record shaves less time off than the last and times for holding records become longer. Genetics is going to play a much more important role from here and we probably will start seeing once in a generation talents shave milliseconds off previous records. But I imagine they will still be beat for centuries to come.
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