World Athletics puts their foot down with Nike’s Vaporfly shoes
The governing body has outlawed the shoes for elite competition with one sports professor calling them ‘technological doping’
31 January 2020 - 18:43
London — Some variants of Nike’s Vaporfly running shoes have been outlawed for elite competition and strict limits on the technology developed for any future shoes introduced after World Athletics(WA) announced significant changes to its rules on Friday.
The sport’s governing body said that, with immediate effect and for elite competition only, road shoes must have soles no thicker than 40mm and not contain more than one rigid, embedded plate...
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