Building the perfect Olympian

Oliver Roberts visits the Sports Science Institute of South Africa and witnesses how science is breaking through the physical limits of human potential Where is our limit? Exactly how fast can a human run or cycle or swim? What's the furthest he can throw a javelin? And exactly how do we achieve these maximums?These are the questions that sports science is continuously trying to answer and yet despite huge advances in the way we understand athletic performance and physiological processes, we ar...