"Faster, Higher, Stronger"... is the Olympic motto, proposed by Pierre de Coubertin and introduced in 1924, and ever since athletes all over the world respect it.
At every sport event athletes are better than their predecessors, improving their performances. And their results are recorded as world records. And the values for speed, time, distance, hight or weight change rapidly, reaching extremes.
But how far can they push the human performances? Is there a limit? Or what is the limit?
I mean the natural limit...
How fast can we swim or run, how high can we jump, how much weight can we lift?
Is it natural that new generation of athletes are better, faster and stronger?
Are they super-men and women?
Modern technology has a tremendous impact on sport performances. But how much can technology improve sport performances?We see high-tech sport equipments that help athletes, as they are designed using aerodynamics, special, flexible materials and even space-technology ... as athletes look like some super-heroes.
Athletes aspiration for glory is a natural desire. But is this hunt for better performances and new world records pushing sport competitions to the extremes?
Is this the era of super-humans?
Or all is a fake, and most of them use performance-enhancing drugs and "accessories", that can't be detected by the "official" tests.
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