solution wrote:
czascp wrote:
Ah yes, we should just go back to barefoot running and cinder tracks, innovation is bad for the sport and Nike should be ashamed of themselves
Bringing back cinder tracks would be highly beneficial for the sport. You could have a mix of grass tracks, cinder tracks and mondo tracks and running would become a bit like tennis with the different court surfaces. Personally, I think the IAAF should offer the highest amount of prize money to the barefoot world records; these should be seen as the "real" world records. However, the major shoe companies who basically sponsor and run the sport would be against this.
No they shouldn’t. Humans have been wearing shoes for 1000s of years. Modern day racing has been wearing shoes since day one. There’s is practically no difference between what they were wearing in the 70s compared to what they were wearing in the 2000s. Put Prefontaine in a pair of nike spikes from ten years ago and he doesn’t run even a second faster. The change to synthetic tracks didn’t yield WRs for several years and when they finally did it was by the smallest of margins (.1 second in the mile for example). Quit trying to compare technology of yesteryear with what we’re seeing today. Other than EPO there is no comparison.