Make the sport great again wrote:
Sorry, but Mondo tracks should absolutely be banned. Re-introducing cinder tracks as the regulation track surface will also create more employment opportunities due to the maintenance required.
1) Everyone has access to the Mondo tracks. Not everyone has access to these shoes.
2) The lack of access - particularly for the 2016 Olympic marathon - is why I think those results should be invalidated. Nike secretly invented the shoes, didn't release them in the market and then gave them to their favorite runners like Galen Rupp. The 4th placer wasn't wearing the shoes. Rupp and Kipchoge benefitted from Mechanical Doping.
3) I'm not 100% opposed to the shoes. I'm opposed to the rules not being enforced. The shoes in 2016 were illegal and nothing has been done about it. Also I want clarity for 2020. The IAAF needs to issue a statement immediately. If they want to say, "Any commercially available shoe as of January 1, 2010 is legal for 2020. Then say it."
People step on a line in the midst of a steeplechase and lose a medal but here you gain minutes from your shoes and the authorities look the other way.