Nike sprint super-spike CANCELED

Wow that shoe looks completely demented!

aw man, i really wanted to see this in action

Cancel culture has gone to far. Even shoes can be cancelled. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

Someone copy and paste the article in please

Not selling a shoe because of Bolt's or anyone's legacy sounds off. Kipchoge built his legacy running in Alphaflys. The shoe will be back unless it's banned.

Maybe Nike found that the advantage these spikes confer is so big that even they can't justify trying to introduce it into competition?

The public, who for the most part are disinterested in athletics, know Bolt and his records. Probably one of the few top athletes they could name and someone who brought interest to Olympic finals for the masses and hence sponsorship and funding for World Athletics and the IOC. They know little of the impact mechanical doping has had on the sport for the past few years and how its eroded the integrity of world records, PB's, etc.

However if Bolts records were to be beaten on a weekly basis by athletes they had never heard of, the public would ask questions and the impact of mechanical doping would become clear. At this point the public lose what little interest they still have in athletics, sponsors respond, TV deals lose value and World Athletics and the IOC see their funding dropoff a cliff. The public then hold athletics in the same regard as pro cycling, all is then lost.

I'd like to think Nike might have identified this scenario and dropped the shoes to maintain the illusion of sporting integrity and protect the funding of WA/IOC. Nothing would upset these organisations more than threats to funding.

When would it end? Marketing at the edge perfomance is a losing game. Better to stick to comfort, preventing overpronation, or self tieing

Michael Phelps’ records being broken haven’t ruined swimming.

Anyway, it’s been known for a long time that viperflies are banned. This article and thread are dumb.

That is the case in every event and always has been, better shoes will produce faster times over inferior shoes, my guess is Usain Bolt had shoes superior to Jesse Owens and Owens could have run faster if he had Bolt's more advanced shoes.

That said if races were run barefoot, no one in History could beat a prime Bolt at 100 and/or 200 Meters. Bolt was a Genetic Marvel, a Freak of Nature. Yet at some point in the distant future his records will go as well due to EVOLUTION every generation improves over the one before it overall, Records can last for 50 years as there are always people ahead of their time, but as a group The Human Species gets Bigger, Stronger and Faster (There are Exceptions/Outliers) but look at the times from the first Modern Olympics in 1896 versus now.

douglas burke wrote:

That is the case in every event and always has been, better shoes will produce faster times over inferior shoes, my guess is Usain Bolt had shoes superior to Jesse Owens and Owens could have run faster if he had Bolt's more advanced shoes.

That said if races were run barefoot, no one in History could beat a prime Bolt at 100 and/or 200 Meters. Bolt was a Genetic Marvel, a Freak of Nature. Yet at some point in the distant future his records will go as well due to EVOLUTION every generation improves over the one before it overall, Records can last for 50 years as there are always people ahead of their time, but as a group The Human Species gets Bigger, Stronger and Faster (There are Exceptions/Outliers) but look at the times from the first Modern Olympics in 1896 versus now.

Bolt is a genetic marvel much like Armstrong is a genetic marvel.

"Neil Duncanson tells of Australian anthropologists discovering 20,000-year-old fossilised footprints sealed in mud showing that cave men from the Pleistocene Age were running at speeds of 37 kilometres per hour – barefoot, on undulating terrain, and armed with heavy spears.

"Scientists believe that these aboriginal ancestors would have been capable of speeds of more than 45km/h if they'd had the same modern advantages as Usain Bolt," Duncanson writes.

Bolt's average speed when he clocked his 9.58sec 100m world record at the World Championships in Berlin in 2009 was 37.58km/h. In old money, that's 23.35mph."

Cavemen had to compete with crazy-fast animals so they may have been faster ....

That isn’t a spike. It is a spring strapped to a spike. No way that should be legal.

Bolt ran for Puma?

Wouldn't Nike do everything in its infinite power to have an athlete faster than Bolt?

It doesn’t look that much different than the Victory distance spike. I guess nobody cared about Bekele’s legacy.

Pure Nike Hype. Brilliant! The shoe so good we had to pull it for public safety! LMAO. It will be back in limited quantities and selling for $575 per pair.

Love bolt but this is dumb as heck. Was Bolt a Nike athlete all those years? I thought he was with puma?

Times are just times. Are they saying these shoes would of made another three time triple Gold medal winner?

douglas burke wrote:

That is the case in every event and always has been, better shoes will produce faster times over inferior shoes, my guess is Usain Bolt had shoes superior to Jesse Owens and Owens could have run faster if he had Bolt's more advanced shoes.

That said if races were run barefoot, no one in History could beat a prime Bolt at 100 and/or 200 Meters. Bolt was a Genetic Marvel, a Freak of Nature. Yet at some point in the distant future his records will go as well due to EVOLUTION every generation improves over the one before it overall, Records can last for 50 years as there are always people ahead of their time, but as a group The Human Species gets Bigger, Stronger and Faster (There are Exceptions/Outliers) but look at the times from the first Modern Olympics in 1896 versus now.

My friend this is not how evolution works. Not only does evolution require tens of thousands of years, it would also need a survival or reproductive factor in which top athletes either live dramatically longer or reproduce dramatically more than the rest of the population. Improvement over generations is due entirely to the growing talent pool, both as population grows and as the popularity and participation of the sport goes, and due to better training methods, professionalism, where top athletes can devote all time and energy to training and lastly, better equipment. Absolutely zero percent of improvement in times is due to evolution. In fact the talent of human distance running is the same now as it was when Jesus was alive believe it or not. And if it were different, we would be ever so marginally slower than the humans of Jesus’ time.