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diet, training and injuries / Re: One for the runners
« Last post by Stabbsy on Today at 06:07:37 pm »My only other questions are if they are cheating, who is being cheated & if running is no longer 'pure' what sport is?
Dennis Kimetto. Maybe. Last person to break the marathon world record before Vaporflys changed the game.
The "Maybe" is the problem though. I want to be able to celebrate Kipchoge and Kiptum's performances as being next level, but there's this little itch in the back of my mind that says what if Kimetto or Gebrselassie had those shoes and they were a responder? Could they have done the same? Could they have done better?
Whatever anyone says now, Pandora's Box has been opened and it's not closing again. World Athletics had the opportunity to limit stack height when the Vaporfly had a 39mm stack - with the stack height being fundamental to the way that the current generation of carbon shoes "work". They chose to set a limit of 40mm. At the time, I thought it was the wrong decision and still do.