[Cass]

That's already true of most sports, though. There's plenty of mechanical constructs that can move faster than the fastest human. The challenge is to be the fastest human using nothing but a human body, not to outrun a car or a boat (or even a humanoid running robot, which I assume we could build at this point, if anyone was interested in putting enough money behind it.)

[bfuller]

Of course a human can't outrun a car. This isn't some unprecedented idea, people have retired for this reason before:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50573071