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Originally Posted by Pursuivant
Assume any (near) world record represents a critical success with both Extra Effort and governing skill, plus Fit or Very Fit for endurance athletes or Lifting ST for power athletes, and work out BL or Basic Speed from there.
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This approach would only work if that athlete's record-setting performance was sharply better than their average. This is usually not the case. Top professional/olympic athletes tend to be very consistent over time.
Then there's another thing about statistical performance and dice-rolling. If a Gurps characters put forth their personal best because they succeeded to an unusual degree at a Skill or Extra Effort roll there will be inevitable (by the rules) instances where they fail those rolls and therefore perform much worse. This is usually not seen either.
It's best to decide that Real People aren't Gurps characters.