NIKE QUALITY: Shoes FALL APART in WC steeple AND Berlin Marathon.

guess they have to cut down on quality control since they had to pay out so much to USATF.

Big question

will somebody lose their job over this at Nike?

Swooshtastic wrote:

What a pathetic product.

Cost Kipchoge the WR. Get that man in a real shoe (Adidas) and the record is toast.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Yes. 1980 Olympic Trials.

Slave labor factories have made Phil Knight extremely wealthy.

What event in the 1980 trials? Weren't they cancelled for the boycott?

malmo wrote:

Swooshtastic wrote:

What a pathetic product.

Cost Kipchoge the WR. Get that man in a real shoe (Adidas) and the record is toast.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Yes. 1980 Olympic Trials.

Slave labor factories have made Phil Knight extremely wealthy.

All the R&D money goes into the doping program.

The same thing used to happen with the 2nd gen Frees. It was beyond frustrating to run in them, had to just toss the insoles.

1980 trials? wrote:

What event in the 1980 trials? Weren't they cancelled for the boycott?

Steeple.

No.

Looks like this is a non-standard insole, since it says "Berlin." I wonder if this happens on the stock insole too.

[quote]Swooshtastic wrote:

What a pathetic product.

Cost Kipchoge the WR. Get that man in a real shoe (Adidas) and the record is toast.

Has anyone else experienced this?

1985 I was warming up for a 1500 meters at the Hayward Field "Mini Meet" (open track races prior to an Oregon dual meet) and the insoles of my Nike Zoom Distance spikes came unglued and bunched up at the toes of the shoes. Painful experience.

one off wrote:

Looks like this is a non-standard insole, since it says "Berlin." I wonder if this happens on the stock insole too.

I'm sure the screen printing did it.

Wait, they don't simply glue the insoles in during the manufacturing? Most are glued, and for those that aren't usually the shoe is well enough designed that they don't simply slide out when a foot is inside and the shoe is tied!

Cost Kipchoge a WR:

http://cdn.letsrun.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Kipchoge_Eluid-Berlin15.jpg

Cost Conselsus Kipruto a WC gold:

http://cdn.letsrun.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/IMG_0076.jpg

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2015/08/ezekiel-kemboi-cements-status-as-greatest-of-all-time-evan-jagers-medal-hopes-come-up-short/

If this happens so often on the world stage, how often is it happening to the everyday runner? Often:

http://imgur.com/oP8bQLC

https://www.reddit.com/r/running/comments/1b5i1y/has_this_happened_to_your_nike_free/

pink slip wrote:

Big question

will somebody lose their job over this at Nike?

phil knight just fired the sweatshop lady that glued them

she's got 10 starving children to feed

This is probably very common for shoes over the long marathon distance.

Kipchoge + adidas adios Boost = WR

“As he has done in previous races, Eliud was testing a prototype racing flat which we’ve been working on together for several months,” said T.J. Crawford, a spokesman for Nike, which sponsors Mr. Kipchoge. “As with any prototype, elements can sometimes go wrong. On this occasion, the sockliner didn’t work. As in all innovation, we will learn quickly from mistakes.”

How innovative can a sockliner actually be?

Call me crazy, but this seems like literally the worst time possible to test a prototype. This is the biggest stage of this sport. This is the absolute one time you should not be testing something new. Yet these shoe companies are starting to see this is their best chance to advertise a new product.

Booooost wrote:

Kipchoge + adidas adios Boost = WR

THIS^

Nothing new on race day wrote:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/kenyan-marathoner-falls-short-of-record-after-nike-shoes-fail-1443375160

“As he has done in previous races, Eliud was testing a prototype racing flat which we’ve been working on together for several months,” said T.J. Crawford, a spokesman for Nike, which sponsors Mr. Kipchoge. “As with any prototype, elements can sometimes go wrong. On this occasion, the sockliner didn’t work. As in all innovation, we will learn quickly from mistakes.”

How innovative can a sockliner actually be?

What an incredibly stupid excuse.

Kipchoge had never even done a long run with these pieces of junk.

This is DEFINITELY "something new on race day." Complete embarrassment for the company.

Unlike North American runners, sponsorship money for Africans is pretty tiny and all of their money is from race prizing and smaller appearance fees. Kipchoge should jump ship to a serious track company.

If this is true... This is ALL on Kipchoge.

Who would wear a new shoe of insole or shorts or jock in a marathon where you are trying to set a W/R?

If Nike wants to tell him.. "het if you wear the new shoes, we'll give you $5000.

All he has to do is say no.

It's All About The Money!