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I don't know exactly how much I could have run with these spikes, but faster than 9.50 that's for sure."
A month before the start of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Usain Bolt had confirmed, in an interview with the British daily
The Guardian
, which everyone had a presentiment of: the appearance of new spiked shoes promised to revolutionize athletics.
Just like the famous polyurethane wetsuits in the pools that had upset swimming with a rain of records that prompted the International Federation to ban them from 2010. Should we fear the same type of consequences with these so-called spring shoes , because ultralight and equipped with a carbon blade in the sole which, associated with a fine foam, returns energy with each support?
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For the former European champion in the 110m hurdles Stéphane Caristan, interviewed by
Ouest-France,
there is no doubt:
“It's another sport, we are entering a new era,
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