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This will be broken eventually, but Michael Johnson's 19.32 in the 200m may be the most impressive current record out there. Has anyone else even broken 19.6?

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This doesnt qualify, as we are talking about career records.

However, EVERY single track and field record that is standing at this current moment will be broken eventually. Thats just plain fact. The human body continues to evolve to be bigger and faster. Not to mention that science continues to evolve and that helps performance too.

yeah, his record is pretty damn awesome, but 40 years from now top high schoolers will be breaking that.

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The guy (whose name escapes me) who hit two grand slam home runs in the same inning off of Chan-Ho Park. I don't think anyone will ever hit three in one inning off the same pitcher.

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Fernando Tatis. With the Cardinals!

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Wilt Chamberlain's career rebounds per game record of 22.9 will never be broken. It's probably 100:1 that anyone will top that figure for a single season ever again.

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Pete Rose - 4,256 career hits. I player could average 200 hite a year for 21 years and still be short.

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Julio Franco will top the hits record when he's 89.

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MLB's career triples leader has 309.

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I remember coming home from cross-country practice in high school just in time for that 200m final. It is the only time I've ever seen televised track and field and been blown away by a performance.

Now on to the meat of what I was going to say: The world record that Michael Johnson broke in 1996 was held by Pietro Mennea of Italy, with a 19.72. That record was set in 1979. 26 years later, I find a grand total of 4 official, legal 200m times faster than this. 3 of those are held by Michael Johnson. 3 of them are within .06 of that 1979 record. Your comment that top high school runners in 40 years will be beating Michael Johnson's record - which is currently a full .3 seconds faster than anything else officially timed under legal conditions, as far as I can tell - just seems kind of silly when held up to these results.

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Yup. It's been 9 years since 19.32 and no one has even sniffed anything close. Compare times from ~40 years ago to ones being run now. Lee Evans 43.86 in 1968 400m would have topped Jeremy Wariner's 44.00 to win the gold in Athens 2004. We're not improving nearly as fast as you think.

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Julio Franco will top the hits record when he's 89.

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Next year?

-d

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Thanks.