Over the past century, athletes have broken record after record, becoming remarkably faster and stronger than their predecessors in the span of just a few decades. But the human body hasn’t changed in about 200,000 years — so how was all that improvement even possible to begin with? And will athletes continue to get better, or are there limits? This hour, we look at the science behind seemingly unstoppable record-breaking.
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[1] https://www.wpr.org/programs/morning-show
[2] https://www.wpr.org/people/glen-moberg-0
[3] https://www.wpr.org/people/alex-hutchison
[4] https://www.wpr.org/people/dr-michael-joyner
[5] https://www.wpr.org/people/colleen-leahy
[6] https://www.wpr.org/how-do-humans-continue-break-athletic-records