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[Mister Apoc]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_athletics

so much for nutrition and athletes get better over time

 

[MGHA]

A lot of female records are being beaten lately.

 

[Raonak]

I did a quick scan through the data, doesn't really look like 80's is much of an outlier at all....?

 

[Days like these...]

A lot of female records are being beaten lately.

Nevermind my msg might be considered political

 

[AJUMP23]

80s was a great decade.

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

A lot of female records are being beaten lately.

It is a rare occurrence when one's written text is as funny as a GIF/image/meme.

Well done young man. Well done.

 

[Burning Blade]

Soviet steroids were best steroids comrade.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

I did a quick scan through the data, doesn't really look like 80's is much of an outlier at all....?

I skimmed and sorted the charts too. There's a bunch of 1980s stuff. But what the OP is trying to get at is why are 35-40 year old records still holding up. You'd think modern day athletes would blow past them by now.

However, for a bunch of those records, they are still there but outdated. For example the races in imperial measurements (yards) arent really done anymore. Even stated in the wiki. But races now are in metric (meters). So those old records will last forever. It's not like someone can just banish a 100 yard race record just because meters is the standard.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Soviet steroids were best steroids comrade.

 

[Gp1]

Open the wiki's entry on every single 80's world record holder and you will find a "Allegations of performance-enhancing drug use".

There is even one where a East Germany athlete is complaining that her training partner received a higher dose than her.

 

[FunkMiller]

Yeah, a lot of those were indeed aided by performance enhancing drugs. Thank god we have lots of new women with cocks these days to take those records away!

 

[jufonuk]

80s was a great decade.

Yeah but you try living under thread of nuclear war from Russia and corrupt politicians , pollution big businesses taking over things and making the rules and inflation and mass unemployment……oh wait

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

Food for thought.

 

[IlGialloMondadori]

OP casually researching female athletics and nutrition for the good of the world.