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Athletics at the Beijing Olympics: how much faster can anyone run?
Author(s) -
Hilbe Joseph
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00319.x
Subject(s) - beijing , jump , history , china , advertising , computer science , operations research , business , engineering , archaeology , physics , quantum mechanics
Record after record was broken at the Beijing Olympic Games. Some were truly shattered. But how much faster can a man or a woman run and swim? How much further can a human being jump? Joseph Hilbe examines the forecasts.