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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Sprint times and track and field performances generally improve over time for a host of reasons. Take Usain Bolt at birth and project him back to the 1930s and he does not run these times, he is competing with Jesse Owens.
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Training, conditioning, coaching, performance monitoring, equipment, etc etc have changed, which gets to your point of either needing to grow up in the same era for comparison. Just as with
any sport.
Although... since there was no global warming back in the '30s, Jesse's times might have been artificially quicker due to less friction from the cooler air.
