asdjkfkasdlfjkl wrote:
Desi wasn't wearing the shoes. Shalane was staggering home, shoes weren't that big a help. So her beef should be with Amy wearing them. And I'd agree that Amy has run times that she would never have imagined without the shoes.
The fact that Shalane was staggering home would be all the more reason for Kara to question the results. Shalane perhaps held on by the thinnest of margins, and that margin might have vanished if she hadn't had the shoes.
I don't blame Shalane personally for this. If I was a sponsored athlete, I'm sure I'd wear whatever shoes my sponsor provided. And at that point in time, it probably wasn't all that clear whether or not the shoes made a difference. And since they were secret, she wouldn't have had the benefit of being able to read thousands of different viewpoints about the ethics of wearing Vaporflys when the same technology wasn't available to others. She probably just didn't give the shoes all that much thought at the time.