Prototypes banned, but Nike super shoes OK for Olympics
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If one of the purposes of competitive sport is to inspire us with regard to the human potential in surmounting obstacles and pushing our limits, then the use of technology may be guilty of taking away some of the shine and magic in that, as we may now think that oh, it's not because of his ability that he manages to break the record, it's because of the shoes he's wearing, the suit he dons, the car he's driving, etc....Nowhere is this more evident when it comes to F1 racing! and in competitive sports like sprinting and swimming, the ability to shave of fractions of a second can mean a world of difference; therein lies the unfairness in tapping on technology in competitive sports....
The first shoe ban by World Athletics (WA), the sport's governing body, addresses concerns that technological advances are giving athletes an unfair and unnatural advantage.
Kipchoge and other leading athletes have welcomed the shoes as a natural technological advance, but others say they have gone too far, with Professor of Sport and Exercise Science Yannis Pitsiladis at Britain's Brighton University calling them "technological doping".
Nike promises improving times of up to 4 per cent. Over the course of a 2hr 10min marathon, that is a difference of more than five minutes. The five fastest official marathons of all time have come in the shoes, all within the last two years.
Qn: Should the use of technology in sport be allowed?
If one of the purposes of competitive sport is to inspire us with regard to the human potential in surmounting obstacles and pushing our limits, then the use of technology may be guilty of taking away some of the shine and magic in that, as we may now think that oh, it's not because of his ability that he manages to break the record, it's because of the shoes he's wearing, the suit he dons, the car he's driving, etc....Nowhere is this more evident when it comes to F1 racing! and in competitive sports like sprinting and swimming, the ability to shave of fractions of a second can mean a world of difference; therein lies the unfairness in tapping on technology in competitive sports....
The first shoe ban by World Athletics (WA), the sport's governing body, addresses concerns that technological advances are giving athletes an unfair and unnatural advantage.
Kipchoge and other leading athletes have welcomed the shoes as a natural technological advance, but others say they have gone too far, with Professor of Sport and Exercise Science Yannis Pitsiladis at Britain's Brighton University calling them "technological doping".
Nike promises improving times of up to 4 per cent. Over the course of a 2hr 10min marathon, that is a difference of more than five minutes. The five fastest official marathons of all time have come in the shoes, all within the last two years.
Qn: Should the use of technology in sport be allowed?
posted by Dark Shadow | 2:09 PM
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