This book chapter interrogates the factors associated with efforts towards improvement of performance in endurance sports events, with a specific focus on marathon races, and the future implications for training, competition, and the nature of sports. However, some approaches used to improve sports performance may pose ethical concerns and may challenge sports as a concept of celebrating natural human abilities. With stiff competition from athletes from different parts of the world, constant upgrading of sports science based approaches to training and competition are employed to achieve more success. Rivals will be looking to see how they can integrate the technology into their own shoes - and when this happens, we might see records falling at a very quick pace.Performance in different athletic activities has continued to improve over time, with some athletes from diverse parts of the world registering new world records from time to time. While Abraham Kiptum broke the half-marathon world record too. Kipchoge broke the marathon world record wearing them But they are legal footwear, and footwear that a number of athletes are turning to. Embedded in their thick foamy sole is aĬurved carbon-fibre plate which Nike research says give an improvedįour percent, when you are trying to break time records - is a lot. They are a running shoe made by Nike that supposedly brings significant Vaporflys are a controversial option for some runners and critics. Running a marathon in under two hours was never going to be an easy task - and one that required months of preparation, as well as hard training with his private sponsers INEOS.īut Eliud Kipchoge knew that he had to get every single aspect of his performance right, including his shoes. What does a champion marathon runner wear to break one of the greatest athletic feats in history?Ī bespoke pair of the Nike Vaporfly trainers – called AlphaFLY – a major innovation in the sport which has seen performances sharply improve.
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