did anyone wear Brooks?
I remember reading that he was trying to decide between adidas and Onitsuka Tigers (forerunner of Asics) but I don't remember if that was supposed to be in '72 or '76. He wore adidas in '72 and then what looks something like the Onitsuka Tiger Jayhawk in '76. And I agree with the poster above who suspects that he wore the same shoes in the 10,000m and marathon in '72. I've never heard that story about adidas removing a spike plate and rebuilding the shoe for the marathon and think that's extremely unlikely.
Another former Boulderite wrote:
Shorter said in one story that the shoes he planned on wearing were falling apart, which may be a handy excuse to switch back to Tigers, if he wasn't wearing falling-apart Tigers initially in 76. Does anyone have a photo of that show switch?
Er... wrote:
I remember reading that he was trying to decide between adidas and Onitsuka Tigers (forerunner of Asics) but I don't remember if that was supposed to be in '72 or '76. He wore adidas in '72 and then what looks something like the Onitsuka Tiger Jayhawk in '76.
And I agree with the poster above who suspects that he wore the same shoes in the 10,000m and marathon in '72. I've never heard that story about adidas removing a spike plate and rebuilding the shoe for the marathon and think that's extremely unlikely.
Another former Boulderite wrote:
Shorter said in one story that the shoes he planned on wearing were falling apart, which may be a handy excuse to switch back to Tigers, if he wasn't wearing falling-apart Tigers initially in 76. Does anyone have a photo of that show switch?
The shoe Shorter wore in 1976 was the Tiger "Obori". The shoe was blue, but his were custom (yellow).
https://www.flickr.com/photos/deckerjona/3680499754/lightbox/Never Oprah wrote:
did anyone wear Brooks?
I am pretty sure that Lorraine Moller wore Brooks in 1992 when she got her bronze. I think I gave her that medal mistakenly in 1984 in an earlier post. She'd been dropped by New Balance and if I recall correctly, bought the shoes herself.
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