The Guardian -
3 Oct 2016 08:24

What makes the best athletes faster than the rest? There are years of research, discipline and training behind the 10 or 11 seconds it takes elite sprinters to cross the line. But have the men and women at the top of their game reached 'peak sprinter' - or will the human race run faster still? The greatest race in the Olympics is the simplest. Eight runners, eight straight lines. A bang, an explosion of muscle and, less than ten seconds later, a winner. And all they do is run. No bikes, boats, v...
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