Science Sets Pace for 1932 Olympic Games (Jun, 1931) Science
Sets Pace for 1932 Olympic Games Athletic sports are no longer
merely a purely physical matter, for science and inventive
ingenuity each year bring forth new equipment which enables the
trained athlete to clip seconds or add inches to the world’s
records in all events, until now it is a rare athletic meet when
one or more records fail to fall. by FREDERICK W. RUBIEN
Secretary of American Olympic Committee – As told to ALFRED
ALBELLI WILL sport records ever stop falling? When will human
speed, endurance, prowess and ingenuity reach the saturation
point in athletic events? In the past thirty or more years that
I have been associated with amateur athletics, I have had those
queries facing me constantly. Sport records will never stop
falling as long as the spirit of rivalry burns in human hearts.
The vanishing point of record performances will never be reached
so long as there are mechanical and scientific minds to devise
instruments whereby the -athlet