Can the owners of this site finally stop crying about/doing free advertisment for the Vaporfly all day long?

Draft Day! wrote:

I served my country bravely. And Rojo? He spends his days on the internet writing about black people and vaporflys.

Not only hasn't rojo ever served his country bravely or in any other fashion, he has never had a job. His daddy didn't serve his country, his uncle dubya didn't serve his country and his hero rush limbaugh didn't serve his country.

There are too many shills on this thread.

Nike patented not just the plate, but the angle of the plate placement in the Cheaterflys. This is insane. They patented an angle.

They know they've got Coe in their back pocket, and they know nothing can happen to them that will be bad. They make essentially zero on running shoes, don't be so stupid. They just want to win.

Someone will out-innovate them, and then you'll see what they're really made of.

No one wants to wear New Balance or Saucony and return to the 1980's . The new line of all the Nike shoes are miles ahead . Look for a thin plate in the new Peg Turbo 2020 .

The obsessive focus on the performance benefit of vapor fly is disturbing. There are a number of other shoes out there that also have noted positive return. The difference between the vapor fly and other shoes is not much. I believe it is about 1% comparative to the adidas shoe. The difference is very likely less for some of the new models from competing companies. I would hope that sports science would continue to help us run faster, benefiting from gains in best methods for training, recovering, racing and equipment (eg, watch, treadmill, powermeter). For years, we have been clamoring for shoes to help us run faster. I, for one, want to run faster, especially as age has made me particularly slow. Would I love to have a shoe that could make me move like Usain Bolt or Haile Ghebrselassie? YES!! (To quote Letsrun: Where Your Dreams Become Reality)

To have the owner of this website continue to stoke negativity about something as harmless as a running shoe is poisoning the running community. There are a lot of things to complain about, perhaps it is time to whine less about shoes.

boring blabla wrote:

PS: 85% of all world major podium finishers wearing a version of the Vaporfly actually is what one would expect considering the fact that already 90+% of all elite Africans are sponsored by Nike (which is a fact a running nerd like rojo should have noticed by know, but of course chooses not to mention).

False. It's more like 50/50 between Nike and Adidas.

LetsBeHonestHere wrote:

boring blabla wrote:

PS: 85% of all world major podium finishers wearing a version of the Vaporfly actually is what one would expect considering the fact that already 90+% of all elite Africans are sponsored by Nike (which is a fact a running nerd like rojo should have noticed by know, but of course chooses not to mention).

False. It's more like 50/50 between Nike and Adidas.

Absolutely not in the marathon. Adidas might still have (mainly through RunCzech it seems) some very good 10k runners who also occasionally race half marathons, but in the marathon they are completely out of contention, especially on the men's side.

watch majors wrote:

LetsBeHonestHere wrote:

False. It's more like 50/50 between Nike and Adidas.

Absolutely not in the marathon. Adidas might still have (mainly through RunCzech it seems) some very good 10k runners who also occasionally race half marathons, but in the marathon they are completely out of contention, especially on the men's side.

They're now out of contention because of the shoes. Not the other way around.

LetsBeHonestHere wrote:

They're now out of contention because of the shoes. Not the other way around.

Bullshit, do you even follows the sport? If that would be true we would see countless adidas athletes getting crushed by Vaprofly-armies in every bigger race. This is however not the case, the leading groups are 90%+ Nike right from the beginning.

Maybe they are doing underground marketing for Nike and it's all a ploy ...