Population
3263 world records established for all quantifiable official contests since the first Olympic Games
Design
Other
Follow-up
Since 1896
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World records nearing limits may inform athlete monitoring; leaves open physiological versus training drivers of performance plateaus.
Human physiological frontiers in sports performance are predicted to be reached within one generation, as world records approach their asymptotic limits.
Berthelot et al. (2008) studied this question.
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