They say records are there to be broken, but when it comes to athletics surely someone will set a record that will never be broken?
Otherwise you will have sprinters faster than Cheetah's and high jumper's the equivalent of human flea's.
Roger Bannister did the four minute mile which was deemed impossible at the time, but that has been smashed many times over.
It won't be in our lifetimes but one day athletes will set records that will last for all time.
As for Beamon, I was thir**** at the time and was astounded that someone could jump that far.