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...planet." Thanks to genetic differences, an average Neanderthal woman, McAllister notes, could have whupped Arnold Schwarzenegger at his muscular peak in an arm-wrestling match. And prehistoric Australian Aborigines, who typically built up great strength in their joints and muscles through childhood and adolescence, could have easily beat Usain Bolt in a 100-m dash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darwin Lives! Modern Humans Are Still Evolving | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...dollars than the wallet of the average fan. What's more, figuring out who's a real star, when so many top athletes are marketed as one, has never been trickier. But millions of fans still crave the distraction sport can offer: witness the frenzy that followed Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt's electrifying performances at this summer's World Championship in Athletics. (Read: "The World's Fastest Human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Sports Cheats (That's You, Renault) Swindle Us All | 9/20/2009 | See Source »

...shocked everyone but himself. Less than a year after blazing into history by setting a world record in the 100-m dash at the Beijing Olympics, Usain Bolt broke his own mark on Aug. 16 in Berlin. At the same site where American Jesse Owens upstaged Adolf Hitler 73 years ago, Bolt shaved more than a tenth of a second off his own record, clocking an absurd 9.58 seconds. Never shy about touting his talent, Bolt hinted at even greater successes ahead. "I think it will stop at 9.4, but you never know," he said. At this point, nothing seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Fastest Human | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...sports. A classic Super Bowl between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. Tiger Woods winning the U.S. Open, in overtime, on one leg. The Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA finals. Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer at Wimbledon. Michael Phelps. Usain Bolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Reasons the Cubs Will Win the Series | 10/1/2008 | See Source »

...Usain Bolt may have just broken the human speed limit. Last week, he took two gold medals in the Olympic 100m, shattering his own world record with a time of 9.69 secs., and the 200m with a time of 19.3 secs., obliterating by two-hundredths of a second the long-standing world record Michael Johnson set at the Atlanta Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Fast Can Humans Go? | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

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