"'We should be clear that modern marathon super shoes are performance enhancing devices in a very real sense. I genuinely do not believe a sub-two-hour marathon would have been achieved without super shoes.'"
"'The shoe that broke running' is how Dr. Ross Tucker described the Nike Alphafly, which provided a 3.4 percent increase in speed, translating to significant time savings in marathons."
"'The regulatory task now is to keep tightening the technical boundaries just enough to preserve the marathon as a contest of human performance first, and of shoe design a distant second.'"
Kenya's Sabastian Sawe achieved the first sub-two-hour marathon in race conditions using the ADIZERO Adios Pro Evo 3 super shoes. These shoes, featuring carbon-fibre plates and foam, improve running efficiency by up to four percent. Experts express concerns about super shoes as performance-enhancing devices, with Shaun Creighton emphasizing the need for regulatory measures to maintain the integrity of marathon competitions. The controversy began in 2019 with Eliud Kipchoge's record, which some disputed due to the Nike Alphafly shoes, leading to new guidelines from World Athletics banning certain models.
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