Should we mark record performance achieved With the help of Technology

🚀 Technology in elite sport
📉 If we draw a line, where would we stop?

Our new Letter to the Editor in the Journal of Applied Physiology challenges the proposal to mark technology-assisted records with an asterisk.

🔬 Athletic performance has never been technology-free
🏃‍♂️ Breakthroughs in training methods, biomechanics, nutrition, psychology, and recovery have continuously reshaped records
⌚ Wearable technologies are simply the latest step in this long history of innovation

⚠️ Selectively labeling performances creates arbitrary and inconsistent standards
🧩 Where would we stop? Nutrition strategies? Mental training? New techniques?
🚫 Such distinctions risk slowing innovation and shifting the debate away from performance and sport integrity

✅ A more productive approach is to ensure safe, transparent, and equitable access to innovations for all athletes
🎯 This protects fairness without freezing progress

📄 Duking & Sperlich (2024), Journal of Applied Physiology