📋 When Do Olympic Athletes Peak? (AARP Article)

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When it comes to track and field, researchers think they know.

By Peter Urban, AARP. Published July 26, 2024.

When U.S. sprinter Noah Lyles steps into the starting blocks at the Paris Games, it will likely be his best — and perhaps last — shot at gold in the men’s 100 meters.

At age 27, he is in the magic zone for peak performance, according to researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada who have crunched the numbers to quantify when track-and-field Olympians are at their prime. The results are both “unsurprising and remarkable,” say researchers David Awosoga and Matthew Chow.

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2024/when-do-olympic-athletes-peak.html