How do athletes break records even though the sport has been going on for decades. How do individual humans break those records so often even though we’re said to be getting weaker than our ancestors. Is it just pure willpower or what? In some sports it could be chalked off to rule changes and stuff but there are a lot of sports without any rule changes and rely purely on the athlete. Are they juicing and the juices keep getting better? Is a new record just seen as a goal that only needs to be broken and not annihilated?
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Aside from all the good points as to why high-end athletes are better now than before, there’s another way to look at it:
“Breaking a record” is one kind of very extreme occurrence, but as years pass, all kinds of extreme occurrences become more likely to occur ***simply because they have more chances to happen***.
In addition to records being broken with more time, you’re also more likely to see a baseball game be decided by a home run ball bouncing off someone’s head or see a football team get a playoff-winning score in the last 13 seconds, etc.
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