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‘Why wouldn’t you, if you can run faster?’: the unstoppable rise of the carbon-fibre super shoe (www.theguardian.com)

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I WON'T

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I could see them getting banned in pro racing at some point. Didn't nike publish results that their shoes could get something like 3% faster race times for a marathon. For most people that wouldn't matter but at an elite level it could become pay to win as the shoes get better. The same thing happened in swimming with low drag speedsuits.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

The "Nike Vaporfly 4%" was the shoe - and it was 4% as the name implies