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British Medical Bulletin 2008 87(1):1-6; doi:10.1093/bmb/ldn033
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Norman Vetter

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This quarter the British Medical Bulletin has another excellent varied set of reviews in topics which are new or unusual in emphasis.

At a time when the Olympics are much in the news, our first review is on Updates on improvement of human athletic performance: focus on world records in athletics by Lippi, Banfi, Favaloro, Rittweger and Maffulli from Verona and Milan in Italy, Manchester Metropolitan University and Keele University in the UK (page 7).

Their review states that the progression of world records in athletics is considered a reliable means to assess the potentiality of the human body, and also reflects how society has evolved over time and will continue to evolve. They conducted a quantitative analysis of world records in measurable Olympic events from nine representative disciplines (100 m, 400 m, 1500 m, 10 000 m, marathon, long jump, high jump, shot-put and javelin throw). Data were . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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