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Default Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?



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When you look at sporting achievements over the last decades, it seems like humans have gotten faster, better and stronger in nearly every way. Yet as David Epstein points out in this delightfully counter-intuitive talk, we might want to lay off the self-congratulation. Many factors are at play in shattering athletic records, and the development of our natural talents is just one of them.
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Default Re: Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?

The fastest 100m women's sprinters today still haven't caught up to 1930s Jesse Owens. Lol.
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