KEEP your eyes peeled. Among this year’s gold medallists you might see
something close to the perfect athletic performance.
Athletes have consistently shattered records throughout the past century. But
now they are pushing against the very limits of human potential, say
researchers.
“The improvement is real. But it’s starting to level off in most events,”
says François Péronnet, a sports physiologist at the University of
Montreal.
That doesn’t mean there will never be new records. But as athletes begin to
hit the ceiling of human ability, we’ll no longer expect each year’s performance
to be better than the…
