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A 13-minute TED talk from David Epstein on how and why athletes are faster than they used to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8COaMKbNrX0
Technology: on a modern track, Jesse Owens would be just one stride behind Usain Bolt.
Specialisation: the changed body shapes of athletes in different sports.
Genetics: I won't spoil the marathon example.
Fans of the doping threads will recall that Epstein wrote the book, the Sports Gene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8COaMKbNrX0
Technology: on a modern track, Jesse Owens would be just one stride behind Usain Bolt.
Specialisation: the changed body shapes of athletes in different sports.
Genetics: I won't spoil the marathon example.
Fans of the doping threads will recall that Epstein wrote the book, the Sports Gene.
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I'm not sure that can be anywhere close to right about Owens because if it was then that would mean that Harold Davis would have finished in front of Bolt.
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What's wrong with Harold Davis?
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Diet?
Training, both available time and sophistication? Shoes? Contemporaries running faster? (Apologies, if already mentioned, as haven't got 13 minutes to watch video) |
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it's mostly down to performance enhancing drugs
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Nothing whatsoever Fred. Which is my point. His record equalling performance was a fair bit better than Owens own of a few years before.
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As for White Sprinters,
I rate Valeriy Borzov (Munich 1972) in front of Alan Wells (Moscow 1980) |