3Qs: How much 'faster, higher, stronger' can Olympic athletes get?
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 09:01
in Mathematics & Economics
The United States won more hardware in the 2012 London Olympics than any other country, amassing 104 medals in some 300 events. But competitors as a whole were perhaps even more impressive, setting a grand total of 25 Olympic records. We asked Greg Cloutier, the project manager for the Human Performance and Exercise Science Laboratory in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, to explain why athletes have been able to continue breaking world records every four years.