[grey_whiskers]

“You can breed a horse to go faster than ever before or to have stronger muscles but then its legs will break. It really looks like we’ve maxed out the gene pool for thoroughbreds.”

As the old joke about the physicist goes, the case of the spherical horse is *really* interesting.

[Yaelle]

There are always challenges that can make our tricks get better. As we learn about the mechanics of physiology, in the sport I know best, gymnastics, I can see tweaking requirements to spare some of the weaker parts of the body in order to get even more spectacular achievements while minimizing injury.

If I were gymnastics queen I’d focus less on sticking landings on floor, of have sticking mats that were even more padded or,something, to spare the feet and ankles. So that the passes could increase in difficulty without needing the risk of injury increasing. Use the limits of the body and do new things with it, use technology to help.

Football too - Americans love our football but no one wants their son brain damaged at 25. Or 40. Can technology help with these things? Can small game rule changes help? I believe there will always be ways to excite us with new athletic achievements.

[dp0622]

I can’t even reach my shoes

[Olog-hai]

Lots of other scientific articles online dating back six years were predicting the development of a 40-mph human runner, which is about as fast as the fastest horses.

[gigster]

I'll soon be 58 years old and I'd probably take 2 minutes to do a 100-yard dash, or stagger if you will.

[Larry Lucido]

Yes. There will never be another Izzy Mandelbaum.

[tumblindice]

Ransom E. Olds insisted cars would never go any faster than 100 mph, and no one believed a mile could be run in under four minutes until Roger Bannister did it.

Soon we’ll have she-male athletes with internal sex organs, flipper arms for balance and bionic legs running 100 mph.

[Dagnabitt]

Three of the eight finalists in the Olympic women’s 800m are intersex / hermaphrodites. They have XY chromosomes and in at least one case (probably all 3) internal testes.

There is a good chance that the medals podium in that “women’s” event will not include any biological women.

Hooray for “progress”!

[maddog55]

I’m thinking we’re at the limit.. the millennial generation is a prime example. They can barely walk, won’t work, bitch about everything and are overly sensitive pussies (Clint Eastwood’s word).

They look up from their phone or tablet and get neck injuries. They can’t compete because someone would have to lose and we can’t have that.

We’re looking at a gender neutral Olympics in a few years where nations get participation trophies.

[rollo tomasi]

No, training concepts and certain sciences/pharmacology will slowly push superior athletes to garner better “numbers” (Slowly).

[iowamark]

First I have heard of the German Super Baby.