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An interesting look at today’s athletes

Recently, the NY Times published an article compiling the past 100 years of statistics in the Men’s 100 meter sprint (here). The comparative results were what some historians call “interesting”

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Added: Aug-8-2012 Occurred On: Aug-8-2012
By: Fire37Rescue
In: Sports
Tags: today’s athletes, 100 years of statistics, Men’s 100 meter sprint
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  • Super interesting thanks F37R..

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    GIXXARDR (5310.20)  

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  • I can only imagine this means we are getting closer to that plateau when steroids will be replaced by nano-machines.

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    The_linguist (130.12)  

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  • "what can we take away from this picture?"
    The supplements or dope?

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    porelchikito (162.46)  

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  • Wow good stuff there!

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    hotjobz (1429.02)  

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  • Better training and nutrition, that's all.

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    SuarezThe Hero (45.30)  

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  • cool post. tks

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    smyle (4505.64)

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  • diet ,training,technology,facilities,and maybe some illegal substances cause todays athletes to be better

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    dara (91.60)  

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  • Good example of we humans are still evolving.

    Posted Aug-18-2012 By 
    Citizen USA (126.00)  

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  • decent...

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    voteme (14.60)  

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  • It will come to a stage where humans can only run so fast.

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    dogeatdog (180.70)  

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  • Go back further and things change dramtically. Ancient greeks were faster, they ran at hell of a clip, faster than Bolt for sure. They had Astylos of Crotona, who was certainly a sub 9 second runner and Ladas of Argos (Λάδας), winner of the dolichos at 460 BC, he was said to be so fast that he almost was flying as he did not leave tracks on the ground of the stadium . Modern politicians/govrnments would love us all to think we are better, bigger, faster... simply a ploy on us all. The nutit More..

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    dunkie26 (155.52)  

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    • @dunkie26
      Give up the drugs, there no good for you...

      Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
      GIXXARDR (5310.20)  

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    • @GIXXARDR

      Gixxardr, I don't have a fancy graphic of little computer men. But it doesn't take long to realize that ancient people were bigger, stronger and for sure faster.

      its all to do with diet. Here are some interesting facts on ancient hawaii folk:

      (9) Kanaka maoli says:

      Andy, ancient Hawaii was a land of abundant food supplies from the mountains to the sea. The taro patches and fish ponds were main sources of nutrients and protein and even in the early 1900’s, when a good portion of More..

      Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
      dunkie26 (155.52)  

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    • @dunkie26
      Bigger and stronger I agree on, but that doesn't mean quicker, if anything it means slower...

      Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
      GIXXARDR (5310.20)  

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    • @GIXXARDR

      A lot of ancient olympic tracks were fairly steep downhill, they were focused on speed/entertainment. Races were very fast and dangerous from what i read. And far faster than todays events. Its not apples to apples of course, but we are going back 776 years before the birth of Christ. They took their games extremely seriously, and had no distrations like twitter/TV of course, great food and good orgys. my info is very hard to prove , as little is left of this period, historically, ve More..

      Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
      dunkie26 (155.52)  

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    • @dunkie26
      You lost me at birth of Christ...

      Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
      GIXXARDR (5310.20)  

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  • very interesting, cheers.

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    BillyBangcock (493.60)  

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  • That's a fast repost.

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    DukeBrazi (870.00)  

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  • You realize accurate timing also plays into the times...also better tracks,better equipment,better training and finally.....NEGROS........

    Posted Aug-8-2012 By 
    gizmo8 (412.76)  

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