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The first recorded ski jump was <10 meters in the early 1800s. 60 years later the sport began to grow more popular, and they could hit 20 meters.
The record has basically crawled up from there one or two meters at a time. We’re now at 254.5m, only 4 meters further than we were eleven years ago
Sounds like we're close to the asymptote then.
We seem to think that with every sport at every point in time, and eventually we have to be right, but there is no way of knowing until it happens. New training, diet, technique, and equipment could always be developed that radically advances a sport, not to ignore the occasional genetically gifted athlete who is just literally built different.
It's because the sport is now about handicapped distance to stop people from just overshooting the hill entirely. They could just build bigger hills if they wanted more distance but what's the point? With no handicap it just becomes about who has the balls to jump closest to the flat without breaking both femurs.