[Jack Moroney (RIP)]

I am sure that many of us here have participated in sports events that are currently in the Olympic games. Many have been modified over the years, such as the weight events. When I was competing in the AAU weighliftiing matches we had the press in addition to the two other lifts and that dropped out but was a better measure of overall strength than the snatch or clean and jerk because they have as much to do with speed and technique as they do upper body strength. So those records fall because the events changed. The arenas and venues in which these games are played are also better engineered as are items of equipment used in those events.

I think the next page in the game book will be genetic engineering and/or identifing those that have the right genetic mix that will allow additional physiological exploitation. There will be a human limit at some point as to what they body can achieve, but the events will be modified, the venues changed or the equipment re-engineered. When you can measure success down to thousandths of a second, there is a lot of room for continued records breaking.

Of course it is all a matter of perspective. My idea of a record breaking day in the life of geriatric sporting events is not dribbling coffee all over myself as a I walk at my normal record breaking pace from the kitchen to the back porch.