Leading physiologist believes Bolt will be slow
Mon 23/08/2010 15:30
A leading physiology expert believes Usain Bolt will be an also-ran against tomorrow’s athletes, spikesmag.com reports.
The claims were made by Dr Edward Coyle, who will be one of the lead speakers at UKsem 2010 – a major conference on sport and exercise medicine - set to hit London later this year.
He believes there is no limit to the speed capacity of humans in the future as shown by the improvement of world record in the past. In 1960 the men's world 100m record was 10.0, but today stands at a scarcely believable 9.58.
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I expect world records in athletics will continue to be broken for decades and centuries to come and that we, at this time, might have a hard time imagining the performances that people will one day achieve,” says Coyle, director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Texas, who has worked with cyclist
Lance Armstrong.
Coyle had said in the past that the “ultimate limit” for running one mile is a staggering 23 seconds faster than
Hicham El Guerrouj’s cureent world record of 3:43.13.
Coyle will reveal more of his results at
UKsem 2010 staged at the ExCel, London from the 24-27 November.