I don't whine, I only point out that the rule is very stupid. Do you think athletes running on track One Hour are specialists of short distances ? All the athletes running One Hour this year were runners of HM and full marathon, using validated shoes for road races everytime.
So, if everybody was allowed to compete with racing shoes (the same they use for the SAME DISTANCE on the road), do you think somebody could have some unfair advantage ?
I repeat again : if you run One Hour, the common denominator is not the TRACK (that is the place where you run : track is the same thing for Bolt and for Mosop during the WR of 30000 meters in Eugene, but the events are a little bit differente...), but the DISTANCE. This means that is not possible to impose the athletes to run with spikes, and, if an athlete has a contract with a Company that doesn't produce shoes with thickness under 25mm, can't run in a distance that normally can run with racing shoes, so is not allowed to run (knowing the prohibition 3 days before the race only).
The ridiculous of the case is that :
a) If WA thought athletes running on track with Vaporfly or similar shoes had advantage looking at the Olympic Standard (and for that reason didn't allow from August to use those shoes in a track competition), where is the "par condicio" since athletes achieving the standard BEFORE August 2020 had their times officially validated ?
b) in June, in Oslo, Sondre bettered th AR of 25000m during the "Impossible Meeting", and the record was validated by the European Federation. Two months later, the same shoes are no more permitted, but NOW we can see athletes bettering WR on track with PROTOTYPES that still are not available for normal athletes. So, an Area Record achieved with "validated" shoes that everybody can find in a normal shop is not validated, instead a WR achieved with prototypes not still validated and issued to somebody only can be approved ?
It's very clear that WA didn't have any "line" in the decision, that was only smoke in the eyes of people complaining against new technologies, in many cases for personal interests.
At the end, what remains is the stupid rule that doesn't allow athletes running on track with shoes LESS PERFORMING than spikes, and this is really absurd.