Will world records in sports ever stop being broken?

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Will world records in sports ever stop being broken?
  1. Unread #1 - Dec 16, 2012 at 5:05 PM
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    Will world records in sports ever stop being broken?

    Not sure if this should be posted here, sorry if not..

    as i read here..

    "That said, the mathematics of record-breaking—also known as “extreme-value statistics”—tell us that, all things being equal, the frequency of world records will tend to diminish. At a certain point, we’ll have rolled the dice so many times that the chance of our beating our best score drops close to zero. That’s why new sports and new classes of competitors typically produce more records than old ones. Women athletes weren’t allowed to compete in the Olympic marathon until 1984. Since then, their record time has dropped by about 10 minutes, while the men have managed to shave off only five."
    - http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-07/fyi-will-athletes-ever-stop-breaking-records

    What are your thoughts on athletes breaking world records? And do you think world records will ever stop being broken?
     
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    Will world records in sports ever stop being broken?

    Probably not. If people continue to evolve and next-generation genetics are superior to the previous, sooner or later people will just be all-around genetically superior to the previous generations and be able to beat their records easily. Or at least that's what I think if that makes any sense.
     
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    Will world records in sports ever stop being broken?

    Evolution, Adaptation, Superior training, enhancements And loss of records. Between these things. Records will continually be set.
     
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    Will world records in sports ever stop being broken?

    Nope generally speaking I fell that there will constantly be more evolution and better training equipment so world recors will constantly be broken. My personal theory is that the world records will continue to be broken but will generally take a longer time to achieve. For example an athlete would have to train a lot longer eventually.
     
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