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Originally Posted by tschock
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.  |
Probably true for all sports, but IMO most true for track and field where the performance is objectively measured in terms of time, distance, or height and there is no element of subjectivity.