Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo
Quote Originally Posted by Taeth
Yoh its not just the science. PEOPLE ARE becoming better athletes. The 100,200 meters are being broken all the time, and sports atheltes are getting bigger, stronger, faster. I agree lifting improves on that, but my point with Roy Jones Jr. is that people are becoming better athletes regardless of superior training.
Mate PEOPLE arn't getting fitter or stronger. The vast majority of the population in America and the UK at least are fatter and more unhealthy than they were a 100 years ago.

As for athletics that has nothing to do with genetics and everything to do with the greater quality of life we enjoy now allowing for a talented individual to devote themselves full time to the sport of their choosing, to have the best possible diet, trainers and sports supplements etc.

And anyway the 100 & 200 metre records arnt' being broken all the time. The last current record holder is Justin Gatlin got an 8 year ban for testing positive for steroids, same as Ben Johnson did, same as Tim Montgomery
DO you follow track? If not then you don't know what your talking about because people have been breaking records the past few years at both distances. It is not just the greater quality of life that is making these athletes... Its the fact that the children of two good athletes are often better than their parents. One of the ways humans evolve(I've taken this in anthropology) is by becoming superior in each successive generation. There are kids who are getting fat because of the over abundance of food, but that doesn't mean they not more athletic than their skinnier parents. It just means they didn't work as hard.

Anyways getting back to the point Tunney was too slick for Johnson.