From Oxford to Hawaii ecophysiological barriers limit human progression in ten sport monuments.

In order to understand the determinants and trends of human performance evolution, we analyzed ten outdoor events among the oldest and most popular in sports history. Best performances of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race (since 1836), the channel crossing in swimming (1875), the hour cycling record (1...

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Main Authors: François-Denis Desgorces, Geoffroy Berthelot, Nour El Helou, Valérie Thibault, Marion Guillaume, Muriel Tafflet, Olivier Hermine, Jean-François Toussaint
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18985149/?tool=EBI