RAFA NADAL, 33 , has just won the US Open, one of the four most important and therefore most demanding tournaments in the world. Serena Williams, 37, has been a finalist in the same tournament. Nicola Scola, with 40 years , continues to shine in the Argentine basketball team. Paul Gasol, 39 , also remains in the first level of competition in the best basketball league in the world. Tom Brady, with 41 , is the eternal champion of the American football league. Filipino Manny Pacquiao is also a boxing world champion with 40 years. Alejandro Valverde is in cycling with 39 years . Valentino Rossi continues to compete at a good level in MotoGP with 40.

Michel Phelps won his last Olympic gold medals in Rio de Janeiro, when he was already 31 years old. Ona Carbonell remains one of the three best synchronized swimmers in the world with 29, a sports discipline in which with 20 years you are already to retire. Cristiano Ronaldo himself is one of the two best footballers in the world at 34, an age in which only a decade ago it was said that only goalkeepers could stand in the front line. All these champions have been competing at the highest level for ten or fifteen years, with injuries, but without losing their category against younger opponents.

Experts say that this will go further and we will have to get used to watching football teams with average ages above 30 years. This sports longevity is the result of advances in medicine and sports psychology and improvements in training techniques.

These techniques, these advances and those improvements also reach the rest of society and are the reason that more and more life expectancy increases and that retirement at 65 is already seen as an obsolete figure in many professions . If we add to this that, at least in the West, there is no evidence that the fall in birth will turn around, we have a photograph of what is coming: an increasingly longer and healthier society.

If in sport we can say that the thirty are the new twenty, in society it begins to be a reality that the sixty are the new forty. And that means a revolution for public accounts - the battered Social Security is the best example, but it has more repercussions - and for many business sectors : leisure, tourism, medicine, fashion, food, banking, housing ... they have to adapt to the new times. Many social changes come.

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