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SUPER SHOES AND THE CONTROVERSY AROUND TECHNOLOGICAL DOPING
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://sportslawandpolicyreviewreporter.com/2021/10/24/super-shoes-and-the-controversy-around-technological-doping%ef%bf%bc/
SUPER SHOES AND THE CONTROVERSY AROUND TECHNOLOGICAL DOPING
If you watched the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, you would have noticed that athletes wearing Nike’s super shoes dominated athletic events. The runners wearing Nike Vaporfly super shoes won over 60% of the total medals at the Olympics. The athletes using these shoes were also involved in multiple records being broken in the 1,500-metre, 5,000-metre, and 10,000-metre events.
This raised a question of whether the shoes are a form of technological doping.
But what is technological doping? The World Anti-Doping Agency recognises technological doping as a threat but the responsibility to ban the equipments is left to the discretion of the sporting bodies of the respective sports.
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By SLPRR ADMINThis episode is also available as a blog post: http://sportslawandpolicyreviewreporter.com/2021/10/24/super-shoes-and-the-controversy-around-technological-doping%ef%bf%bc/
SUPER SHOES AND THE CONTROVERSY AROUND TECHNOLOGICAL DOPING
If you watched the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, you would have noticed that athletes wearing Nike’s super shoes dominated athletic events. The runners wearing Nike Vaporfly super shoes won over 60% of the total medals at the Olympics. The athletes using these shoes were also involved in multiple records being broken in the 1,500-metre, 5,000-metre, and 10,000-metre events.
This raised a question of whether the shoes are a form of technological doping.
But what is technological doping? The World Anti-Doping Agency recognises technological doping as a threat but the responsibility to ban the equipments is left to the discretion of the sporting bodies of the respective sports.