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Every year it becomes more challenging to break existing sports records. Looking at how world records have changed in different competitions over the past hundred years, it becomes clear: the indicators have reached a plateau after several spikes. In some areas of sport, records stand the test of time for many years, and it is not known whether they will ever be broken.
In the new episode of “How It Was,” we will talk about big-time sports’ past, present, and future records. We will tell you about four factors determining how many world records get broken with examples from different sports: athletics, weightlifting, long jump, pole vaulting, swimming, and running. How did technical progress help Sergei Bubka set 35 world records? How are doping and weightlifting records interconnected? What is technology doping, and how did it help break 43 swimming records? Why are world records in marathon distance set almost exclusively by representatives of Kenya and Ethiopia? Finally, we will talk about those sports where people have already reached the limit of possibilities and those where new records can still be expected.
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Has Athletic Performance Reached its Peak? / Geoffroy Berthelot, corresponding author Adrien Sedeaud, Adrien Marck, Juliana Antero-Jacquemin, Julien Schipman, Guillaume Saulière, Andy Marc, François-Denis Desgorces, and Jean-François Toussaint / National Center for Biotechnology Information / Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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