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Ruling body’s technological committee meets on Monday and is likely to wave through Nike footwear worn to shatter marathon-distance records
It is the shoes, stupid. Anyone who says otherwise is deluded.
Without those chunky, super-fast prototype Nike alphaFLYs – the ones with platforms to make Ziggy Stardust swoon – Eliud Kipchoge does not shatter the two-hour marathon-distance barrier in Vienna.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/oct/21/shoes-nike-world-records-technology under the title “No record is safe with IAAF poised to allow arms race in shoes to run and run | Sean Ingle”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
