ELI5: How are snowboarders better every Olympics? I’m sure…
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ELI5: How are snowboarders better every Olympics?
I’m sure it’s the case with other events/sports too, but I’m watching men’s halfpipe, so I’m tailoring the question to that. It seems like every Olympics they’re discussing how the athletes are “reinventing the sport in front of our eyes”. But it’s not just semantics or slight variants of the same tricks, like they’re legitimately doing way harder tricks. More spins, flips, height, etc. How does the baseline just keep getting higher? It’s hard for me to believe that the world’s best athletes are simply more athletic every 4 years. So is training/ equipment/understanding of ideal techniques getting better?
#education
I’m sure it’s the case with other events/sports too, but I’m watching men’s halfpipe, so I’m tailoring the question to that. It seems like every Olympics they’re discussing how the athletes are “reinventing the sport in front of our eyes”. But it’s not just semantics or slight variants of the same tricks, like they’re legitimately doing way harder tricks. More spins, flips, height, etc. How does the baseline just keep getting higher? It’s hard for me to believe that the world’s best athletes are simply more athletic every 4 years. So is training/ equipment/understanding of ideal techniques getting better?
#education
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