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Athlete Atypicity on the Edge of Human Achievement: Performances Stagnate after the Last Peak, in 1988
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2010, 5 (1), pp.e8800. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0008800⟩, PLoS ONE, Vol 5, Iss 1, p e8800 (2010), PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2010, 5 (1), pp.e8800. 〈10.1371/journal.pone.0008800〉
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010.
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Abstract
- International audience; The growth law for the development of top athletes performances remains unknown in quantifiable sport events. Here we present a growth model for 41351 best performers from 70 track and field (T&F) and swimming events and detail their characteristics over the modern Olympic era. We show that 64% of T&F events no longer improved since 1993, while 47% of swimming events stagnated after 1990, prior to a second progression step starting in 2000. Since then, 100% of swimming events continued to progress.We also provide a measurement of the atypicity for the 3919 best performances (BP) of each year in every event. The secular evolution of this parameter for T&F reveals four peaks; the most recent (1988) followed by a major stagnation. This last peak may correspond to the most recent successful attempt to push forward human physiological limits. No atypicity trend is detected in swimming. The upcoming rarefaction of new records in sport may be delayed by technological innovations, themselves depending upon economical constraints.
- Subjects :
- History
Physiology
Science
[ SHS.SPORT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sport
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Task Performance and Analysis
[SDV.MHEP.PHY]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Tissues and Organs [q-bio.TO]
Humans
MESH : Task Performance and Analysis
Track and field athletics
MESH : Sports
[SHS.SPORT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sport
MESH: Humans
Multidisciplinary
[ SDV.MHEP.PHY ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Tissues and Organs [q-bio.TO]
MESH : Humans
Secular evolution
MESH: Task Performance and Analysis
030229 sport sciences
Growth model
Evolutionary Biology/Human Evolution
Medicine
Demographic economics
Mathematics/Statistics
Public Health and Epidemiology/Exercise and Sports
MESH: Sports
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Research Article
Sports
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fb5ed5a27a3cc771f858a5853459c5a1