Elite athletes are competing longer and at a higher level than ever before. LeBron James and Lindsey Vonn just turned 40, and Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo turns 40 next week on Feb. 5. It used to be a rarity.
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And don’t forget Hall of Famer Satchel Paige, who didn’t allow a run pitching three innings in a Major League game at 59 with the Kansas City Athletics in 1965. Tanaka attributed this partly to cultural change in regard to marriage and child-bearing, which used to prompt women to drop out earlier from elite competition.
“Older athlete are getting closer and closer to younger athletes,” Tanaka said, speaking of both men and women. “And the older the Masters athlete is, the greater the improvement.”James is reported to spend about $1.5 million annually on his body to stay fit, a number he neither confirms nor denies. He can afford it with an estimated worth of more than $1 billion.
“He’s always working on some part of his body,” Silver added. “You meet with him and he’s always soaking something or eating something or has some contraption attached to him.”Like James, Vonn talks about the benefits of ice baths and new recovery methods that were not around earlier in her career., who won her last Grand Slam singles title at 35 at the Australian Open in 2017. She was several weeks pregnant at the time, which she didn’t announce until months later.
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