In sport, is there a limitation for human physical and biological capabilities?

Question

In sport, will the human in future keep breaking the records of their counterparts in the past? Or, will us reach a limit for our physical biological limit? Let imagine, if there is no limitation, it means the physical capabilities can be improved and do something the past generations can't.

Answer 1

Well if you notice the records in endurance sports are not really moving by large margins anymore. For instance, 100 years ago the world record in the marathon may have been 2hrs, 30 mins. Now it is near 2 hours, but when it is beaten, it is only beaten by seconds. If you think about it, sports records have been going on for less than a century. So it is normal for records to be shattered often. But in well established sports like track, it is getting smaller and smaller all the time.

Actually, the record breaking these days is many times found to be done with performance enhancing drugs. So yes, in time the limits of human endurance are found, and they are pretty constant. Sure some freak will come up and beat the record, but is a human ever going to run a 2 min mile naturally? never.

Answer 2

That all depends, The future generations will follow the predecessors footsteps and make more improvments as the ones before. I think as the culture improves the need for a healthier society, there will be significiant strides and many past records broken...

What more important is the human spirit and the need to do better and the journey to get there.

Answer 3

There is a limit at some point. If we are close to that limit is yet to be determinded, but gene doping and such could conceivably create superhumans in the future. If you don't consider that "human" then we are probably close to the limits now.

Answer 4

there will always be new training techniques and drugs to boost performance

Answer 5

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