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[deleted] t1_jb4zbuk wrote

When I looked at this I think about the evolution of performance over time and whether we will eventually hit an apex of training, nutrition and the physical limits of the human body. Is there a ceiling to performance that we will see or is it plausible that we’ll just continue to see it improve?

I don’t mean this as an open ended qualitative question, more so about the performance data and what it tells us directionally is most likely to occur.

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3trackmind t1_jb4x1v3 wrote

Thank you very much. I had no idea on the distinction when the “s” is added.

I’m one of those apes from the U.S. At least Wikipedia gives me a bit of cover:

> In much of North America, athletics is synonymous with sports in general, maintaining the historical usage of the term. The word "athletics" is rarely used to refer to the sport of athletics in this region. Track and field is preferred, and is used in the United States and Canada to refer to athletics events, including race-walking and marathon running (although cross country running is typically considered a separate sport).

Sport of athletics

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Rugfiend t1_jb4wnq1 wrote

Absolutely incredible that the long jump world record has only been broken once in 55 years (poor Carl Lewis - virtually unbeaten at long jump in a decade, did finally beat Beamon's record, one jump after Powell just beat it)

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PlanetRo t1_jb4tejb wrote

I agree I also would like to see the events listed on both sides.

Or the events to be listed in the center and the two bars to diverge from the center. I think that would have rooted the event to be at the center but it might compel the user to compare men and women's data. Not sure how making users compare is good or , this case at least.

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