Obviously sports is having to deal with how to manage the “super shoe” movement. But just on the eye ball test, this shoe looks way more “legit” than the shoe he wore in Kona (when there was no rules to follow). I guess now it’s now technicality issues on commercial available, developmental status etc.

But PTN did note that any shoe must follow parameter on shoe design, regardless of what the status of the shoe is. So essentially this was a technicality classification issue not really it was ever some shoe that was built outside the parameters (again that’s w


but according to pto its sounds like this ON does not have an develomental relation ship with iaaf , shoe is not commerically availabe shoe should not be allowed to be used .

Captain Obvious here, but I fear these guys have jumped the shark.

The ruling on the shoes came from World Athletics, who's rules are what WT is following... So not entirely sure the process. But probably some obscure website that ON owns posted some pairs for sale with some obscene prices a month before the race. Companies used to list bikes at $100k and do this to get around the UCI's rules on commercial availability...