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Director of the International Center for Olympic Studies at Western University in Ontario Canada
Director of the International Center for Olympic Studies at Western University in Ontario Canada
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Janice Forsyth
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FROM Janice Forsyth
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Can We Keep Getting Faster, Better, Stronger? Every four years, the world focuses on Olympic athletes. The pressure is on—for the Gold, instead of the Silver or Bronze—with the expectation of world record performances. How much longer can this go on? The demands on Olympic athletes are more than physical: they are psychological. And, now that sports are a multi-billion dollar business, they’re economic as well. Will human beings always be able to be “faster, higher and stronger”--or are we approaching the limits of the human species?
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