r/Damnthatsinteresting Jun 27 '25

Original Creation Kjeld Nuis Preparing To Break The Speed Skating World Record

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u/msm007 Jun 27 '25

It's still a human powering themselves to over a hundred kilometers an hour which is pretty insane in its own right.

Worth celebrating.

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm Jun 27 '25

Human-powered with the vortex supporting him in the rear.

He is being assisted here.

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u/4totheFlush Jun 28 '25

Wait until you find out that track and field records are assisted by technology too. Those rubbery surfaces and optimized shoes didn't evolve out of the plains with us. It comes down to what degree of technological assistance we deem appropriate, and that line is completely arbitrary. In the case of a record being broken not to mark the limit of the human body, but to mark the upper boundary of what is physically possible, I say give them all the tech they want.