Why The Olympics Almost Banned This Shoe
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There is a ton of cool sports gear that’s banned from sports for making athletes too good. Swimsuits that make a swimmer too streamlined, gloves that make a receiver’s hands too grippy, bats that let a player hit the ball too hard, and shoes that help a runner go too freaking fast…
They call it “TECH DOPING,” using physical gear to gain an unfair advantage. In this video, I’ll show you the banned gear you won’t see at the Paris Olympics, and the cutting edge tech you will see that’s on the very limit of what’s allowed.
You might be thinking, hold on, no gear should give athletes an advantage! But… we don’t run barefoot anymore. We don’t swim naked. We use tech to play sports. And that tech is always improving, pushing forward what humans can do.
So… where’s the line?
This is about way more than sports. In every part of our lives, technology pushes forward what we can do! And it’s up to us to decide what we want from it. This video is about that question.
We talked to athletes, looked at the world’s best gear, and even went all the way to Nike’s test lab to try on the real Team USA Olympic uniforms. This is the cutting edge of sports tech, explained.
Chapters:
0:00 What is “technology doping”?
1:48 What gear should be banned?
3:10 The world’s fastest swimsuit
4:23 Should this be allowed?
5:24 The world’s fastest shoes
6:28 I cut open a supershoe
8:32 What makes supershoes so fast?
9:28 I try the Team USA Olympic uniform
11:36 Should these shoes be allowed?
12:42 Should prosthetics be allowed?
14:01 Why Blake Leeper was banned from the Olympics
15:46 What is fair?
16:38 ;)
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Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audience understand the world around them and see positive futures they can help build. Before going independent, Cleo was a video producer for Vox. She wrote and directed the Coding and Diamonds episodes of Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. She produced videos for Vox’s YouTube channel, was the host and senior producer of Vox’s first ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox’s YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.
Additional reading and watching:
- Grab and Go: How Sticky Gloves Have Changed Football, NYT: www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/sports/super-bowl-nfl-g…
- Space Age Swimsuit Reduces Drag, Breaks Records, NASA: spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/ch_4.html
- Swimming Bans High-Tech Suits, Ending an Era, NYT: www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/sports/25swim.html
- FINA LZR Racer Ruling: www.pvswim.org/official/rules/FINA_Swimsuits_2009-…
- Nike’s Fastest Shoes May Give Runners an Even Bigger Advantage Than We Thought, The Upshot: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/13/upshot/nike…
- Supershoes Are Reshaping Distance Running, MIT Technology Review: www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/25/1093520/supers…
- The Controversy Behind Nike’s Vaporfly Running Shoe, Explained, WSJ: • The Controversy Behind Nike’s Vaporfl...
- The Science Behind The World's Fastest Shoe, Cheddar: • The Science Behind The World's Fastes...
- How Eliud Kipchoge Ran a Sub 2 Hour Marathon, Mike Boyd: • How Eliud Kipchoge Ran a Sub 2 Hour M...
- He Could be the First American Amputee in the Olympics, Blake Leeper, Great Big Story: • He Could be the First American Ampute...
- The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declared It Cheating, Half As Interesting: • The Shoe So Good the Olympics Declare...
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コメント (21)
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There's only one true solution: go back to naked Olympics. Leave the tech and doping to the Enhanced Games
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Ah, so the stuff Batman uses with his billions in research and development.
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Blake stood out here, seems like an amazing human being. Being capable of saying "I disagree, but I understand" in the face of being disqualified from the Olympics for something outside of your control is a whole other level of resilience and maturity.
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I bought a pair of shoes from a drug dealer once, I don't know what he laced them with but I was tripping for days.
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Nike probably wouldn’t want you to, but it would have at least been fair to mention that the record of Kipchoge is not recognised as an official record as it broke a lot of the rules that you’ve mentioned in this video. Of course it’s still an amazing achievement, but there’s a reason it has not been matched in an official event. This video makes it seem like it was purely the shoes, but he literally had a group of pacers shield him from the wind while running.
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10:00 35° Celsius for those who might ask
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There's a place where Nike truly finds the limits of human body, and that's their supply-chain factories...
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I have been running for 25 years and when I first ran in the Alphafly 3 I was BLOWN AWAY, the biggest impact for a normal runner like myself was the reduction in fatigue. I can’t imagine how much it must help a top level runner
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One of the most important points to consider is: Can every potential Olympic athlete afford the same equipment? If Ethiopian athletes all of a sudden struggleto keep up because the west is wearing high tech, ultra expensive equipment. How would that be in line with the Olympicspirit?
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0:42 The blur effect was a brave choice 🤨
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This whole thing sounds like nothing less than absolute genius advertising on the part of Nike. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that Nike had secretly lobbied to have these shoes banned.
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One of my favorite things about these videos is that they clearly have a lot more cool stuff to share but Cleo and her editing team are ruthless in the editing room and cut it down to exactly what will be the most interesting/necessary to know to get the point across. Another banger as usual
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"Just wear it" ---NIKE 😂😎
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Answer is simple..give every athletes same gears...!! So uniform gears will solve all debates .!!!
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Congratulates on 3 million!
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I forget that Cleo only posts once a month. But when she does she comes out with bangers
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"Welcome to Nike's test lab" Casually trips
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You got to run in a space suit AND Olympian gear? You're the coolest!
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I think we should just split sports into two categories: One for the "purists" where all the athletes compete naked and without any gear that may give a technological advantage in any way One for the "hardcore" crowd where there are no rules. Instead of about athletics, it will basically be an engineering competition.
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By the way, you should never cut carbon fibre without a proper face mask and a an air exhaust system right next to the saw. Carbon fibre dust is a bit like a modern asbestos and will stay in your lungs forever, since your body can't break it down. It will also stay airborne for a pretty long time, due to to its super fine size.
