Cuba's Leonel Suarez competes during the high jump at the men's decathlon at the Hypo Meeting in Goetzis, Austria, on Saturday, May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
Cuba's Leonel Suarez competes during the high jump at the men's decathlon at the Hypo Meeting in Goetzis, Austria, on Saturday, May 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson)
The new breed of Olympic superhuman isn't a steroidal mutant from Sweden who can dead-lift a beluga whale, nor is it a cyclist who spends hours a day in the laundromat waiting for his blood to finish its spin cycle — it's a mother or, more specifically, a Belgian mother of two named Tia Hellebaut who claims that, at 34 …
[India, October 8: Jessica Zelinka of Canada competes in the high jump in the women's heptathlon during day five of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. Image via Getty.]