{"id":256887,"date":"2026-08-09T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/how-is-it-physically-possible-to-continue-breaking-sporting-records\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:00:17","slug":"how-is-it-physically-possible-to-continue-breaking-sporting-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/09\/how-is-it-physically-possible-to-continue-breaking-sporting-records\/","title":{"rendered":"How is it physically possible to continue breaking sporting records?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:700\" class=\"dcr-1iwzucl\">O<\/span>bviously, progressions in sports clothing technology must make a small difference to the abilities of an athlete \u2013 but how on earth is it physically possible that we continue to break world records, year-on-year? Are humans really faster or stronger than they were decades ago? <em>Jennifer Michaelson, Newlyn<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\"><em>Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to <\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/aug\/09\/mailto:nq@theguardian.com\" data-link-name=\"in body link \" https:=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nq@theguardian.com<\/a><\/strong><em>. A selection will be published next Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2026\/aug\/09\/how-is-it-physically-possible-to-continue-breaking-sporting-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, progressions in sports clothing technology must make a small difference to the abilities of an athlete \u2013 but how on earth is it physically possible that we continue to break world records, year-on-year? Are humans really faster or stronger than they were decades ago? Jennifer Michaelson, Newlyn Post your answers (and new questions) below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}