India, May 15 -- "Faster, Higher, Stronger," goes the Olympic motto, and it was never truer than now. World records are falling at a frenzied rate, and news of incredible athletic feats appears to come at us every day.

Since the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, records have been reset (in some cases more than once), by men and women, in sports ranging from the shot put, discus throw, 3000m steeplechase, 400m hurdles and pole vault, to the 2000m, 3000m, 5000m, 10,000m and mile runs, the half-marathon, full marathon and 50km and 100km ultra-marathons, and the 20km and 35km walks.

In one crazy week in February 2025, seven world records fell in the space of nine days, with Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo dropping the half-marathon time by a whopping 48 secon...