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.
Well said. I'd be pissed if I was him, training so hard and overcoming a disability just to be told he can't compete based on a questionably calculated theoretical height limit...
It's wild how they used a small study from Caucasian and Asian men to define how tall a black man *would have* been. Dude never had legs to begin with, how would you know how tall he would've been? At the very least I would've looked at medical records of the men in his family from both his mother's and father's side, then taken into account modern medicine and diets to determine how tall he would've been.
@DotDodd So people could chop their own legs off to get an advantage? Not a road they want to go down. A huge part of being a successful athlete is avoiding injury and managing recovery. Metal cant get injured.
The real career is the fame you get from it, so Blake can probably have as good of a career as a silver medal winner, in terms of endorsements, appearances, etc.
I still kinda feel bad for him, the elgs might give him a slight advantage on certain metrics but it's clearly 90% just his blood sweat and tears driving his results, I hope he can compete in the future
@LycanWendell It's hard to respect someone who can disagree with the obvious huge advantage blades have over runners. Opening up the regular competition to blades would mean, sooner or later, that the entire upper echelons of the sport all were using blades, and the actual fastest actual runners on the planet would have nowhere to compete. Sure they could make a non-blades competition as well, and that would be the real competition because nice though it is that you can augment your body to give yourself an advantage, it is not the type of competition people are interested in or care to see.
@unhingedninja8565 funny you should say that - formula 1 has extensive regulations which make sure the cars are on a relatively level playing field without compromising safety. the F1 regs actually artificially limit innovation, so cars are not as fast as they can be. if formula 1 was applied to racing, then outlines for shoes would be provided where certain materials were banned, certain materials required, and minimum and maximum dimensions given.
Near the beginning of the video she mentioned fairness to record holders. There would have to be asterisks, or "new era" records everytime a new tech is introduced
15:45 "I don't agree with it but I understand." It's SO refreshing to hear people open minded enough to truly hear out the opposing side, even if they don't agree with it. Kudos.
@a_molepersonyou accepted his argument when he didn't trash the counter-argument? So his argument itself didn't sway you but something irrational and irrelevant did? Good job 🤡
he understands. but also he wants someone(even not him) in the same condition to compete in the same Olympics that is being seen as fair and not advantage.
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.
Kelvin Kiptum ran 2h:00m:35s using the Alphafly 3 in Chicago. Regrettably, in February he tragically passed away. Finding the ideal conditions, he would have certainly been able to go sub 2h.
@gpersonaltrainer100%. Sad but I was thinking Kiptum would be the first to run sub 2 hour marathon in a competition. It will happen sooner rather than later.
P.S I might be biased, However, Kipchoge's attempt at Sub-2 hour marathon, was more of an attempt to prove that it is actually possible to run 42km is actually possible, thus, they attempted it severally, each time improving on the last- basically, SCIENCE(ING) a sport where it was a niche of sorts. To use them in ordinary sport, then is to regularise it. Doping imo should actually count in instances where the athlete is intentionally cheating giving himself an advantage (artificially) against others. Say use of steroids etc
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
My gosh I wish I could get those (300$) I'm curious to see if they would help with leg pain even when walking. I have pretty severe RLS so I'm very intrigued by their effects on pain
What made a big difference for me was getting my runners professionally fitted, including canting adjustment to the insoles. The stability difference was immense and this leads to less fatigue.
This is really the question of "is the sport purely a test of human skill, or a technology race as well?". For me, the innovation that comes from it all, and trickes down to the everyday use, is worth the temporary " unfairness" created by someone having a slightly better gear than others. This can also be mitigated by the "all gear must be available to all" rule, which is a brilliant idea.
The "all gear must be available to all" rule is a farce. In track cycling for example, many bikes are officially available, but they have an absurdly artificially inflated price. Some are more than $100,000. Point is, they know damn well nobody will buy them, and it certainly isn't realistically readily available for competitors.
@whateverbikes If your average contestant can't afford it, than it's not actually available to everyone. Part of being "available to everyone" means they might have to also give other athletes access to that equipment too. Cost shouldn't be a barrier.
I started my work outs back in high school with at least 10 min of running. So I’d say it’s definitely not a long time to be running, but hey maybe it is for your day and age.
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.
Asbestos are not as dangerous as people make it out to be. Yeah, it's bad. But we're talking high levels of long-term exposure before damages to the body can be noticed. Doing it once or twice won't hurt you.
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?
I believe this is the reason fastskins were banned. They were effective enough to be required but in 2008 they cost $400 and chlorine ruined the effectiveness after only a handful of uses. That's a huge burden to put on student athletes.
Allowing the swimsuits also meant that amateur competitors, national competitors, school competitors had to consider these extraordinarily expensive garments. Everyone can buy a goggle. Not everyone can buy $1000 LZR swimsuit.
If it is only about price, in theory we can forget all technical details and only ban gears that exceed certain price point. But in reality it is impossible to define objectively how pricey is too pricey. The LZR swimsuit is less about price but more about "has it started getting into the league of flippers in swimming assistance".
Well... there should be an additional category, or even an alternative Games, like something called an Ultra Olympics working on the same idea of the Constructor's Championship of F1. In a sense that the manufacturers could design more efficient gears under a separate set of rules and open up for improvements similar to how F1 brings certain tech back to the more civilian type vehicles i.e. ABS, automotive Carbon Fiber
I’ve been following your channel for a little while now and just want to say it’s positively refreshing to see fun, informative content for once rather than the ‘brainrot’ stuff a lot of creators are posting now. Very nicely produced content that’s fun to watch and teaches you something too, awesome!
As a competitive swimmer at lower levels, I remember when the super suits came. Unlike previous swim wear, they covered a lot of the body. They were very expensive and had low durability, which means a lot of swimmers would not be able to afford them (we are talking about 10 times the price of previous gear and having to buy new several times each year, which also challenged sustainability). Of course, compared to bicycling at pro level, alpine skiing or golf, the price of gear was still low, but many swimmers without the suits felt they were competing against a suit, rather than a person. I guess most swimmers felt it was against the spirit of the sport.
They only last around 250 to 300 miles too, so 10 marathon races worth no account for training miles. The cost would really stack up for some athletes. Not to mention the waste of having such a short lived shoe
How would innovation ever be possible if you had to actually sell your shoes! 😂 Preposterous... What's next? They will force them to sell the shoes for the same price to everyone?!?
0:55 “we don’t runs barefoot anymore, we don’t swim naked.” You’ve hit on a brilliant idea! The ancient Olympic Games were competed in the nude. To make the games as fair as possible, all competitors must be nude. We make the games more fair and increase viewership immensely. 😂
@mygirldarby that's not what is being talked about here though. In the "nude" means no tech advantage. everybody gets the exact same "skin" suit with their flags and done. All of the competitions, everybody has the exact same "to measure" nude garb and that's how they compete. I would be hella stocked with that!
Cleo has one of the most gentle and warm voices I have ever heard. I could listen to her talk about just about anything. She also would be perfect for ASMR. I bet she's also very soothing to listen to when you're sick, like someone just chatting quietly with you and checks in to see how you're feelin'. She gives off a comforting vibe
It doesn't hurt that she's impossibly beautiful, too! I'd vote for some kind of ASMR that utilises a visual medium, where she's wearing Lycra leggings, or tight denim, or something that clings to her figure...
I mean... make the standard less expensive then? Or set up a fund for it? There are options, but some kind of standardisation is needed. The money argument doesn't make any sense anyway, because if they can't afford standardised gear, they're certainly not affording the hyper advanced high tech gear that skirts the rules.
@Isabella-vx3bc then they can use regular swimwear. What we are talking about is that only one or very few top technology models should be allowed and announced 6 months before the games.
Not going to work because like with shoes for example, different kinds of shoes help people with different kinds of gaits. Also different arch levels and running styles have different shoes to accommodate them.
This didn't really touch on the "can everyone use it" part for most cases. The lzr racer was $550 and meant to be worn only 10 times. Thats not accessible to everyone
Oohh I want to use this video in one of my seminars next year to exemplify my lecture on embodiment, sport, and technology, where I discuss the limits of human capacity and what kind of tech aids are considered cheating in competitive settings! Great work Cleo 😄
I think the only discriminate of technology to avoid in sport is ease of accessibility. All sportsmen should be able to have it if they want to. If it is not possible so it should be banned. If it is easily accessible and the sportsmen can choose to use it or not it should be allowed
That's not as simple as you're making it out to be. Think about the blade guy at the end of the video, if other athletes wanted to could they amputate their own legs and put on massive springy blades?
@PlaySAOf course! Nothing is as simple as it sounds, but for the sake of brevity... Also highlighting edge cases can be a persuasive strategy, but it doesn't always reflect the full picture
So what do you make of sports like canoeing or rowing where the equipment can cost tens of thousands of dollars and the difference between a good boat and a mediocre boat is the difference between winning and losing. Not to mention the equestrian sports like dressage, which aren’t even real sports it’s literally just all about the horse and horses are expensive AF. There is no way that every rower can afford to be in the best equipment. Do you suggest just canceling those events because they are unequal in terms of equipment?
@PlaySANo prosthetic that currently exists can make an amputee perform as well as an able-bodied person, though. They show in the video that athletes with prosthetics are 40% slower around starting blocks and 1-3% slower around curves than non-amputees (looks like their source is an article written for the University of Colorado Boulder site, which took statistics from Royal Society Open Science). The athletes in the video even says that what they got him on was the blades making him taller, not them making him actually run faster. A lot of lower limb amputees choose to use wheelchairs some or all of the time specifically because leg prosthetics come with a lot of disadvantages. If you’re referring to a science fiction world where prosthetics somehow function the exact same as flesh legs, only better, then yeah, your point is good.
Considering you’re an F1 fan, you should do a video on all the Formula 1 technology that has been banned over the years, such as active suspension, side skirts, and fan car technology 🏎️
The swimsuits and shoes aren't just tech advantages but an advantage that was only being offered to select athletes. The shoe rule that it needs to be a shoe publicly available for X amount of time is solid and swimsuits should go the same way. For the running blades, it may look like a very similar sport, but the tech paths are divergent and again not available to all. It should be recognized as the separate sport/event that it is. In the blade runners only events, things like the height rule may or may not be needed.
But you're then essentially banning disabled people from competing against able bodied ones. That's not fair either, especially considering that he didn't get a speed advantage and the other points mentioned.
@Etho_9 It isn't banning, it is recognizing they are not the same event. Any speed advantage that may or may not be there is irrelevant, because they aren't doing the same thing. We could have a fair category for bladed runners by making a rule set for blades that attach and move in a way that is the same regardless of lower limb.
@barongerhardt yes you are. You're segregating disabled people from able bodied ones, supporting the notion that they cannot complete with them. But they can, they are primarily using the same skills and outright forcing any disabled person into a different category blocks them from visibility and potential resources. It's definitely possible to find fair requirements to let them participate, especially in this case.
@Etho_9 As long as they run without the blades, I think it is fine. Let them compete. What you are arguing for is different rules for different people in the same competition. Most of the time when one participant gets special rules or advantages only available to them, we call that cheating.
Glad to see I’m not the only one that caught that lol I think the editor just explained to whoever they justified this action to, that they should blur it to keep viewers watching to find out what was so grippy later in the video. But in reality yeah I think that they just wanted some laughed. I hope they don’t take down this video and repost it with that part edited out
They have that kind of thing for bodybuilding and weightlifting I believe. And yeah if it's a different category from natural athletes, fine I don't really care if those people want to wreck their bodies in return for success. But they cannot compete against natural athletes.
OMG my brother runs marathons and I just did the "couch to 5k" challenge. He gave me my own pick of his 30 pair of used Nike shoes. All the same, just with different colors. GUESS WHAT shoe it is? LOL. 2:48 at Boston my AS$...
I really envy how Cleo is so confident and sure of herself in these spaces- I don’t know why but just asking to cut the shoe, or if she can sit in a plane, etc. is something I would feel bad or nervous about for NO REASON
That USA running outfit just blew my mind. I knew Cleo was next level attractive but whoa. Girl is in crazy good shape. Guessing she is a runner herself.
Oh! Cleo’s talking about a topic I can relate to! I’m a long distance runner that focuses on marathons. These days, you’ll see pretty much everyone in these shoes. It then becomes the great equalizer, especially now that pretty much every other running shoe brand has developed their own super shoe.. it took a few years and a few iterations, but most other brands now have shoes that meet or even surpass Nike’s Alphafly. The thing is, people don’t realize that though these shoes help your running economy, you still have to train. Months and months of training to reach your marathon goal. It’s not like a completely sedentary person can just buy these shoes and then complete a marathon the next day. Like you said, you get as much out of them as you put in.
Uh? No, I’m pretty sure people do realise that you still have to train. Nevertheless, they give you advantage over people with other shoes. What are you on about?
Hi there can u gimme a good Nike shoes recommendation for daily running. Ive been using Nike flex 2017 since 2017. And its almost time to buy a new one for me.
@mina86 I don't think you realise how much of a confidence booster brand new running shoes gives you, let alone new 'super shoes' that supposedly will break records, also most of the masses that do certain events even marathons hardly train for it, and usually leave their training rather late and close to the event, so people already have a poor relationship between training and racing in first place late alone with the idea that 'my super shoes will do most of the work for me'. People do dumb things, and get dumb ideas, this isn't an uncommon concept XD
@sirsquid577, even if they leave the training rather late, they still train. No one buys the shoes day before the race and expect great result with no training.
I mean yes, the shoes are only returning your own energy to you so the more you put in the more benefit they will give you. That being said they still massively, massively increase efficiency. The current rules seem fair enough, that a product must have been on the market for 4 months and be available to anyone, plus the foam height limit and the carbon fiber plate limit. That seems like a good way to do it to me.
15:41 It’s so unfair that his estimated height was calculated using averages from other ethnicities, that are traditionally smaller. It feels almost like that they were looking for any technicality that would impede him from participating in the Olympics.
it's not the fact that those ethnic groups are typically smaller that makes the estimate doubtful, I guess the reasoning behind the criticism for it is that their body proportion might be, on average, different between ethnicities (I have no knowledge of that, but i can imagine being true) wich would skew the estimate
@daexion Not at all. The human body size and measurements change depending on ethnicity, nutrition, and genetics. Salvadoran people, for example, are a lot smaller on average than the people from the US.
@TheCatWitch63I would say ethnicity plays the smallest part in determining body size and measurements if at all. A good example of this is that North Koreans and South Koreans are now considered ethnically distinct from each other but if you go back 70 or so years they had pretty much the same body size and measurements but modern day North Koreans are significantly smaller than their Southern counterparts due to malnutrition and a couple of other factors. They share similar genetics but have diverged due to the two populations being isolated from each other.
They might be off, but are they off by _5 inches?_ certainly not. On blades he’s taller than he would have been. How are you going to on hand regulate the height of foam padding in shoes, and on another hand allow 5 inches of extra perfectly calibrated human prosthetics. Is _that_ fair?
I understand this video isn't about Nike specifically, its about the ban of gear that enhances performance. But I'm not a fan of Nike's business practices so I don't wear anything made by them anymore. I do love your channel Cleo. You're so in-depth and you have great topics and you are a joy to watch because you always seem so excited about whatever it is you're getting a chance to learn and share. I love learning new things and your videos are one of the many avenues I use to learn.
As a runner I have alpha flys and vapor flys and other regular training shoes. I do notice I can sometimes do better depending on the shoe, but I’m not sure how much of a placebo boost the shoes give me. I’ve also had good and terrible runs in super shoes so I know it’s not the equipment it’s the athlete that makes the biggest difference
Absolutely right, good comment. At the very top of every sport, the athletes are all maxed out in dozens of other variables... and then you throw a 2% gain on top of that. The percentage is important, too. For distance running, that adds up. For all levels below the elite, the shoes probably would only be one factor, amongst many that determine the outcome.
I don't think organizations are banning techwear because it's exceeding human ability, it's because of the likely precedence of backdoor exclusivity deals by selling ever-evolving tech to the usual highest bidders _first_ (namely the USA, Gulf States, China etc), especially before a very specific quadrennial international sport event. We wouldn't even be having this discussion about banning tech if every single athlete from every corner of the world had indiscriminate access to the same wearables in every international event.
I think the other layer to this isn't just on-paper accessibility, but cost as well, especially at the amateur or qualifying levels where athletes aren't guaranteed to be able to afford the latest tech. Like, for instance, someone from a less privileged background not making it through the tryouts for their collegiate track team because it was filled with rich kids wearing $250 Nike Vaporflys.
It’s supposed to be a competition between the athletes’ abilities, not the tech. When the tech influences the results too much, it’s no longer a competition between humans but one between corporations.
I would love to see something like the Olympics but with all this tech with no limits. Imagine they take that Laserracer and keep using it, figuring out to improve finding the limit for such tech. Or the shoes, remove the limits; how much energy return can we truly get back. Or the runner blades, how fast; how improved can we make the human body go?
Can’t sprain an ankle, strain a calf muscle, get cramps or get tired lower legs with blades. Everyone should be using the same technology. All or nothing.
There are set of others problems that comes with it, blisters, swelling, and burns on the stumps, and cramps usually hits in the hamstrings not lower legs.
Blades are 100% not fair unfortunately. Competing against other blade users, fine. But yeah I wasn't a fan when Pistorius was doing it and I haven't changed my mind now. They provide real, obvious benefits: they're incredibly springy, they consume no blood oxygen, they're much much lighter than a normal leg, they can't get tired or injured, it's just too many things to take into account and I do think it's better to have blade users race against each other instead of people with legs.
@PlaySA Oh I agree, they should simply class all the odds in the same group, they need to unwoke and simply say no that is an entire new category, let the odds compete against the odds. I will poke the bear, Gender is not a state of mind and they should have 3 genders to compete separately "man", "woman", "other" it is unfair to the spirit of the sport allowing so many men to ruin woman's sport, but hey one can of worms at a time right?
No tech should be banned, but you should not be allowed to use tech that isn't available for free to the other competitors the day you get access to it.
4:16 that's because goggles dont make you any faster. They just let you see the wall ahead of you so you dont slam into it ans cause injury. The speedo NASA suit completely enhanced one's ability to swim faster
they should just make a Super league where all tech enhancements and drugs are allowed in order to see what is physically possible in terms of biotechnological human innovation. it would be the most interesting thing that ever happened to sports and science. they could also even allow men and women compete against each other
Would only work in a dystopia. Otherwise it would encourage all kinds of unethical shit (think cybernetics, limb replacements, gene editing, deadly drug use, etc)
@zanido9073If it's consensual why would it be unethical? The entire point is to be the best combination of human+tech and see how much better you can be than an unaugmented human
@phreakhead Partly because to be the "best", people would take increasing risks. Doping is a very good example of that and it is perfectly normal for athlete to prefer not to have a cancer a few years after the end of their career.
actually the Alphafly series is the nerfed version of the Vaporfly Proto that used by Klipchoge (Vaporfly Proto got more than 40mm PEBA stack height, 3 Carbon Fiber plate, 4 Air Zoom pods. While Alphafly 3 is regulated spec, less than 40mm PEBA stack height, one carbon fiber plate, 2 Air Zoom Pods)
14:45 this part right here is so unscientific that they used a non race deterministic theoretical study. What if someone had a genetic mutation that I dunno increase growth rate in the lower extremities but was also then ablated by another mutation that stopped the growth during gestation. It's theoretically impossible to accurately correct something like that and to use a non race determined study to give any hypothetical measurement is so scientifically biased
Especially that last part was ethically very interesting. He was too tall? But how does that work for people who are actually tall and use that to an advantage? Should they also be disqualified because their height is unfair to other athletes?
i had the same question it is a rule that needs more questioning and better understanding. Because i get where they are coming from but that is not a level playing field from my eyes
Not too tall. I think they claim that he had unnatural proportions , which gave him an advantage (lower body much longer, given his total height). But still, some people have longer legs than others that have the same height. I imagine that there would be some negotiations about the final height they decided that it was "fair" to compete with. But yeah, given also the disadvantages of having blades (e.g. reduced acceleration), what is "fair" is not really measurable and it's going to be subjective.
@elladesigns9609 as they should. Paraolympics exist for people that can't take part in the olympics without corrective equipment. It's that simple. Blades change entirely the sort of person competing. Now...if you want to say corrective equipment is allowed then there is a case for having no paraolympics. You decide. Can't have it both ways
@StevenGV1Completely agree, but you can twist it other way saying: - If people born with an advantage is ok, that means that any natural barrier created is ok and should remain that way. -So why shooters can wear glasses?
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.
Take my angry thumbs up and get out.
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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.
If Phelps got to keep his records with the high-tech swim gear, then they should have let Blake compete with a one-time exception.
Well said. I'd be pissed if I was him, training so hard and overcoming a disability just to be told he can't compete based on a questionably calculated theoretical height limit...
It's wild how they used a small study from Caucasian and Asian men to define how tall a black man *would have* been. Dude never had legs to begin with, how would you know how tall he would've been?
At the very least I would've looked at medical records of the men in his family from both his mother's and father's side, then taken into account modern medicine and diets to determine how tall he would've been.
@DotDodd So people could chop their own legs off to get an advantage? Not a road they want to go down. A huge part of being a successful athlete is avoiding injury and managing recovery. Metal cant get injured.
The real career is the fame you get from it, so Blake can probably have as good of a career as a silver medal winner, in terms of endorsements, appearances, etc.
BIG RESPECT to my man Blake. "I disagree but I understand". Real sportsmanship there. Wishing him all the best!
No kidding. He seems like a really respectable human
@LycanWendell Very well so
I still kinda feel bad for him, the elgs might give him a slight advantage on certain metrics but it's clearly 90% just his blood sweat and tears driving his results, I hope he can compete in the future
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@LycanWendell It's hard to respect someone who can disagree with the obvious huge advantage blades have over runners. Opening up the regular competition to blades would mean, sooner or later, that the entire upper echelons of the sport all were using blades, and the actual fastest actual runners on the planet would have nowhere to compete. Sure they could make a non-blades competition as well, and that would be the real competition because nice though it is that you can augment your body to give yourself an advantage, it is not the type of competition people are interested in or care to see.
the problem isn't the tech. it's the unequal access to the tech. The solution is simple: one-design class racing
nah, this should be like f1 - bring the best u can, let others catch up
@unhingedninja8565 funny you should say that - formula 1 has extensive regulations which make sure the cars are on a relatively level playing field without compromising safety. the F1 regs actually artificially limit innovation, so cars are not as fast as they can be.
if formula 1 was applied to racing, then outlines for shoes would be provided where certain materials were banned, certain materials required, and minimum and maximum dimensions given.
so essentially - the current shoe regulations are surprisingly similar to the system Formula 1 uses
Near the beginning of the video she mentioned fairness to record holders. There would have to be asterisks, or "new era" records everytime a new tech is introduced
@caskadestudioyes but there are still massive variances in budget and affordability between different teams. Don’t forget that!
There's a place where Nike truly finds the limits of human body, and that's their supply-chain factories...
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Ah, so the stuff Batman uses with his billions in research and development.
Now that you mentioned it, batman might use these shoes to always catch up to criminals
An all batman Olympics sound rad as hell
@casualcommenter9730 yeah, one that's about the spirit of engineering.
Pretty much
Yeah, i thought the same thing
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to be fair, if 1 person is using, then everyone in that competition should be using the very same product too...
That doesn't mean everyone would get the same benefits. Different shoes for differently for people.
@BloopsnBleepswell allowing any shoes is unfair to people with hard soles
everyone run naked problem solved
@BloopsnBleeps access to the same products as other is important.
thats like saying you gotta run as fast as your competition. or be as tall as the next guy. Makes 0 sense.
15:45 "I don't agree with it but I understand." It's SO refreshing to hear people open minded enough to truly hear out the opposing side, even if they don't agree with it. Kudos.
exactly my thoughts, in fact thats when i accepted his argument the most
@a_molepersonyou accepted his argument when he didn't trash the counter-argument? So his argument itself didn't sway you but something irrational and irrelevant did? Good job 🤡
he understands. but also he wants someone(even not him) in the same condition to compete in the same Olympics that is being seen as fair and not advantage.
He's a class act! We need more of him
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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.
Kelvin Kiptum ran 2h:00m:35s using the Alphafly 3 in Chicago. Regrettably, in February he tragically passed away. Finding the ideal conditions, he would have certainly been able to go sub 2h.
@gpersonaltrainer100%. Sad but I was thinking Kiptum would be the first to run sub 2 hour marathon in a competition.
It will happen sooner rather than later.
P.S I might be biased,
However, Kipchoge's attempt at Sub-2 hour marathon, was more of an attempt to prove that it is actually possible to run 42km is actually possible, thus, they attempted it severally, each time improving on the last- basically, SCIENCE(ING) a sport where it was a niche of sorts.
To use them in ordinary sport, then is to regularise it.
Doping imo should actually count in instances where the athlete is intentionally cheating giving himself an advantage (artificially) against others. Say use of steroids etc
A hundred and a dozen things have to go right for a perfect race
The above wisdom is true your talented but not talented enough athletes.
The record and this video have nothing to do with each other
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
My gosh I wish I could get those (300$) I'm curious to see if they would help with leg pain even when walking. I have pretty severe RLS so I'm very intrigued by their effects on pain
For that much money, it should run for you.
What made a big difference for me was getting my runners professionally fitted, including canting adjustment to the insoles. The stability difference was immense and this leads to less fatigue.
So you could fly? Where did you land?
@Lord_LindaThePhilosopher Expensive athletic shoes are worth it. Even in college, I was using $300 cleats. 100% worth every penny.
At this point, athletes should just start doing the olympics naked like how it was originally done.
Especially the girls.
@Wildman-zh8lg Only the girls especially if there's no bush hampering aerodynamics.
Cleo lives the best life. She gets to wear the official olympic uniform, wear a spacesuit, get in a F1 car.
Easy when you're a sellout without morals.
kinda looked like an Olympian in that outfit too
This is really the question of "is the sport purely a test of human skill, or a technology race as well?". For me, the innovation that comes from it all, and trickes down to the everyday use, is worth the temporary " unfairness" created by someone having a slightly better gear than others. This can also be mitigated by the "all gear must be available to all" rule, which is a brilliant idea.
most sports are a test of human skill and a technology race.
The "all gear must be available to all" rule is a farce.
In track cycling for example, many bikes are officially available, but they have an absurdly artificially inflated price. Some are more than $100,000. Point is, they know damn well nobody will buy them, and it certainly isn't realistically readily available for competitors.
@whateverbikes Well, they won't be available for casual cyclists, but the big teams have huge budgets, 100K is nothing for them.
@whateverbikes
If your average contestant can't afford it, than it's not actually available to everyone. Part of being "available to everyone" means they might have to also give other athletes access to that equipment too. Cost shouldn't be a barrier.
@user-vn9ld2ce1s So you agree they are not really 'available to all', making it not the brilliant idea you said it was in the real world.
11:05 great comedic timing delivery for the "she's been running for... 2 and a half minutes." lmao
WHATS SO FUNNY ABOUT 2 MINUTES OF RUNNING :P Thats a long time in this day and age...
I started my work outs back in high school with at least 10 min of running. So I’d say it’s definitely not a long time to be running, but hey maybe it is for your day and age.
@mm6705 not really but maybe bcuz i live in tropic climate
More like 9:55...
I liked the idea that the product had to be available to everyone 4 months before the competition
It is. Wether you can get it is another thing and 100% fair.
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.
good to know
It’s like no one knows. I see far too many RUclipsrs doing this. 😢
Holy shit dude thanks for the info
Can the body break down saw dust comparatively?
Asbestos are not as dangerous as people make it out to be. Yeah, it's bad. But we're talking high levels of long-term exposure before damages to the body can be noticed. Doing it once or twice won't hurt you.
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?
One could also include food and clothing. Some countries will have better things than other countries.
Yes I think that’s a better discussion. Because if it’s wildly available (and affordable) then everyone has a chance
@ArtFreeman And some have better air quality. We Obviously can't equalize All variables. But equipment and doping we can equalize as much as possible
@Roy_Godiksen In order to pay for equalization countries would have to raise taxes and republicans would be the first to complain.
@ArtFreeman That has Nothing to do with Anything with this video...
I think its about accessibility to the gear. Regulators need to try to keep gear available and reasonable priced so that the sport stays relatable
I believe this is the reason fastskins were banned. They were effective enough to be required but in 2008 they cost $400 and chlorine ruined the effectiveness after only a handful of uses. That's a huge burden to put on student athletes.
I agree, I think she should have talked about it
not relatable - competitive
The plausible discussions you raised are valid from both sides of this debate. You did an outstanding presentation in this video. Well done.
Allowing the swimsuits also meant that amateur competitors, national competitors, school competitors had to consider these extraordinarily expensive garments. Everyone can buy a goggle. Not everyone can buy $1000 LZR swimsuit.
This is a very real point that people don't consider. This turns the development and grass roots into a rich person's sport.
If it is only about price, in theory we can forget all technical details and only ban gears that exceed certain price point. But in reality it is impossible to define objectively how pricey is too pricey.
The LZR swimsuit is less about price but more about "has it started getting into the league of flippers in swimming assistance".
Well... there should be an additional category, or even an alternative Games, like something called an Ultra Olympics working on the same idea of the Constructor's Championship of F1. In a sense that the manufacturers could design more efficient gears under a separate set of rules and open up for improvements similar to how F1 brings certain tech back to the more civilian type vehicles i.e. ABS, automotive Carbon Fiber
Yeah and few people will chop their legs off for blades. Pretty obviously should be banned.
@Idiomatick U were careful where to put the "t" mister.
(sorry , jus couldn't help myself ).
I’ve been following your channel for a little while now and just want to say it’s positively refreshing to see fun, informative content for once rather than the ‘brainrot’ stuff a lot of creators are posting now. Very nicely produced content that’s fun to watch and teaches you something too, awesome!
As a competitive swimmer at lower levels, I remember when the super suits came. Unlike previous swim wear, they covered a lot of the body. They were very expensive and had low durability, which means a lot of swimmers would not be able to afford them (we are talking about 10 times the price of previous gear and having to buy new several times each year, which also challenged sustainability). Of course, compared to bicycling at pro level, alpine skiing or golf, the price of gear was still low, but many swimmers without the suits felt they were competing against a suit, rather than a person. I guess most swimmers felt it was against the spirit of the sport.
Appreciate your hard work on these videos I enjoy your perspective thank you
For those curious, the Nike Vaporly 3 seem to go around for $280-300
Alphafly 3, which is what we saw in the video, is $285 in the US. The Vaporfly 3 is $250.
Imagine buying the latest technology on running shoes only to lose to a Mexican Raramuri wearing Sandals 😂
@brandall101 Thank you both. I don't like sitting through a whole video to find the one word you need but they don't tell in the headline.
They only last around 250 to 300 miles too, so 10 marathon races worth no account for training miles. The cost would really stack up for some athletes.
Not to mention the waste of having such a short lived shoe
@ganglesmc6879 I doubt they'll fall apart at 300 miles, most likely still usable when top performance is not necessary.
“A moral obligation to keep pushing forward” Oh perleeeze Nike man!!! What corporate BS!!
How would innovation ever be possible if you had to actually sell your shoes! 😂 Preposterous...
What's next? They will force them to sell the shoes for the same price to everyone?!?
I get it that they make it their mission. But I agree that "moral obligation" doesn't apply.
Somebody like him probably believes it, he looks like a coolaid drinker
The Nike dude totally dodged the question.
I would probably give them more respect if they just say "We just want to sell a gazillion bunch of these!"
0:55 “we don’t runs barefoot anymore, we don’t swim naked.” You’ve hit on a brilliant idea! The ancient Olympic Games were competed in the nude. To make the games as fair as possible, all competitors must be nude. We make the games more fair and increase viewership immensely. 😂
Women were not only disallowed from competing in those Olympics, but they weren't even allowed to be spectators.
@mygirldarby that's not what is being talked about here though.
In the "nude" means no tech advantage. everybody gets the exact same "skin" suit with their flags and done. All of the competitions, everybody has the exact same "to measure" nude garb and that's how they compete. I would be hella stocked with that!
Headline: Women's Beach Volleyball sees a 69mil % uptick in ratings
Can you imagine growers finally having an advantage with their genetic drag reduction system lol
@HuanHunter Most of them are 90% naked anyway.
Cleo I truly enjoyed your content!!! Thank you so much for sharing.
Your videos are mindblowing... PRODUCTION VALUE OVER THE CHARTS. Keep up the AMAZING work.
16:39 OMG can’t 🤣
Cleo has one of the most gentle and warm voices I have ever heard. I could listen to her talk about just about anything. She also would be perfect for ASMR. I bet she's also very soothing to listen to when you're sick, like someone just chatting quietly with you and checks in to see how you're feelin'. She gives off a comforting vibe
I completely agree with @SlimedogYT that Cleo's soothing voice is perfect for relaxation and even has the ability to ease anxiety!
It doesn't hurt that she's impossibly beautiful, too!
I'd vote for some kind of ASMR that utilises a visual medium, where she's wearing Lycra leggings, or tight denim, or something that clings to her figure...
Great show. Glad I found your channel.
I forget that Cleo only posts once a month.
But when she does she comes out with bangers
And shes so hot wearing those fit uniform damn!
Quality over quantity!
Yeah, it's always interesting and in depth.
You can not compare glasses *"correcting"* the vision to Blades *"enhancing"* the speed.
Gotta be the best production Cleo. Great peek at the shoes and the blades. Thank you :)
Imagine using this shoe in a school sports day.
Great video. All the science (and money) behind sports and sports gear is a fascinating field.
Hey, I KNOW THE ANSWER: JUST GIVE EVERY ATHLETES The SAME kind of equipment for that particular game while minding their sizes.
Not really an answer
The swimsuits for example are very expensive
And not every country is capable of providing that for each of their contestants.
I mean... make the standard less expensive then? Or set up a fund for it? There are options, but some kind of standardisation is needed.
The money argument doesn't make any sense anyway, because if they can't afford standardised gear, they're certainly not affording the hyper advanced high tech gear that skirts the rules.
Some sports at the Olympics do exactly that.
@Isabella-vx3bc then they can use regular swimwear. What we are talking about is that only one or very few top technology models should be allowed and announced 6 months before the games.
Not going to work because like with shoes for example, different kinds of shoes help people with different kinds of gaits. Also different arch levels and running styles have different shoes to accommodate them.
If you let the companies design better gear, you can guarantee that all the runners would be wearing the same or better gear the following year.
Appreciate your enthusiasm and informative energy you go Cleo thanks 👍👍🤓
I love Blake’s perspective. Seems like a great person.
"I don't agree with it, but I understand it". I have tons of respect for that statement.
This didn't really touch on the "can everyone use it" part for most cases. The lzr racer was $550 and meant to be worn only 10 times. Thats not accessible to everyone
Excellent video Cleo! Very tricky defining the line between allowable and not allowed.
Oohh I want to use this video in one of my seminars next year to exemplify my lecture on embodiment, sport, and technology, where I discuss the limits of human capacity and what kind of tech aids are considered cheating in competitive settings! Great work Cleo 😄
I think the only discriminate of technology to avoid in sport is ease of accessibility. All sportsmen should be able to have it if they want to. If it is not possible so it should be banned. If it is easily accessible and the sportsmen can choose to use it or not it should be allowed
That's not as simple as you're making it out to be. Think about the blade guy at the end of the video, if other athletes wanted to could they amputate their own legs and put on massive springy blades?
@PlaySAOf course! Nothing is as simple as it sounds, but for the sake of brevity... Also highlighting edge cases can be a persuasive strategy, but it doesn't always reflect the full picture
So what do you make of sports like canoeing or rowing where the equipment can cost tens of thousands of dollars and the difference between a good boat and a mediocre boat is the difference between winning and losing. Not to mention the equestrian sports like dressage, which aren’t even real sports it’s literally just all about the horse and horses are expensive AF. There is no way that every rower can afford to be in the best equipment. Do you suggest just canceling those events because they are unequal in terms of equipment?
@PlaySANo prosthetic that currently exists can make an amputee perform as well as an able-bodied person, though. They show in the video that athletes with prosthetics are 40% slower around starting blocks and 1-3% slower around curves than non-amputees (looks like their source is an article written for the University of Colorado Boulder site, which took statistics from Royal Society Open Science). The athletes in the video even says that what they got him on was the blades making him taller, not them making him actually run faster. A lot of lower limb amputees choose to use wheelchairs some or all of the time specifically because leg prosthetics come with a lot of disadvantages.
If you’re referring to a science fiction world where prosthetics somehow function the exact same as flesh legs, only better, then yeah, your point is good.
@dand5829 but it isn't proprietary tech. Anyone who can afford it can buy it
Considering you’re an F1 fan, you should do a video on all the Formula 1 technology that has been banned over the years, such as active suspension, side skirts, and fan car technology 🏎️
McLaren puts it in their street cars.
At least you can give these shoes to kids being bullied so they can outrun there bullies
The swimsuits and shoes aren't just tech advantages but an advantage that was only being offered to select athletes. The shoe rule that it needs to be a shoe publicly available for X amount of time is solid and swimsuits should go the same way. For the running blades, it may look like a very similar sport, but the tech paths are divergent and again not available to all. It should be recognized as the separate sport/event that it is. In the blade runners only events, things like the height rule may or may not be needed.
But you're then essentially banning disabled people from competing against able bodied ones. That's not fair either, especially considering that he didn't get a speed advantage and the other points mentioned.
@Etho_9 It isn't banning, it is recognizing they are not the same event. Any speed advantage that may or may not be there is irrelevant, because they aren't doing the same thing.
We could have a fair category for bladed runners by making a rule set for blades that attach and move in a way that is the same regardless of lower limb.
@barongerhardt yes you are. You're segregating disabled people from able bodied ones, supporting the notion that they cannot complete with them. But they can, they are primarily using the same skills and outright forcing any disabled person into a different category blocks them from visibility and potential resources. It's definitely possible to find fair requirements to let them participate, especially in this case.
@Etho_9 As long as they run without the blades, I think it is fine. Let them compete. What you are arguing for is different rules for different people in the same competition. Most of the time when one participant gets special rules or advantages only available to them, we call that cheating.
@barongerhardt ah, I see, arguing in good faith isn't on the table here, excuse me for thinking it was. Well, bye
0:42 “Whoa that’s grippy” while blurring is WILD. Editor, I see what you’re doing
What
Glad to see I’m not the only one that caught that lol I think the editor just explained to whoever they justified this action to, that they should blur it to keep viewers watching to find out what was so grippy later in the video. But in reality yeah I think that they just wanted some laughed. I hope they don’t take down this video and repost it with that part edited out
I’m getting these shoes next year and I’m so exited
9:42 oh great heavens
But I wanna watch
Congratulates on 3 million!
You are the first person, where I activate the bell, because your videos are THAT good! Thank you!
0:01 and you look damn good in it
We should have a Superhuman Olympics where steroids are mandatory.
It's the only way to know no one is cheating
They have that kind of thing for bodybuilding and weightlifting I believe. And yeah if it's a different category from natural athletes, fine I don't really care if those people want to wreck their bodies in return for success. But they cannot compete against natural athletes.
@PlaySA
How do you define "natural" tho? Creatine is performance enhancing and is perfectly legal in every sport.
They are already essentially doing that. Go look up the "enhanced games" that they are doing, second half of 2025, absolutely no drug testing.
@jarehelt Everyone is using steroids in current Olympics already
0:26 that’s a soccer goalkeeper glove
Great coverage on this, thank you. Your voice is pleasant to listen to 😊 and I love how you get access to crazy behind the scenes.
Its not about the car, Its about the driver who's driving it.
OMG my brother runs marathons and I just did the "couch to 5k" challenge. He gave me my own pick of his 30 pair of used Nike shoes. All the same, just with different colors. GUESS WHAT shoe it is? LOL. 2:48 at Boston my AS$...
We have all this gear and then there is Yusuf from Turkey, bro comes in wins silver and refuses to elaborate , pure skill doesn’t need a cape
You know if you’ve been to the Nike test lab this also happened to you or almost did @15:36
yeah they're afraid of insanely competitive people cutting their own legs just to gain mechanical advantage
I really envy how Cleo is so confident and sure of herself in these spaces- I don’t know why but just asking to cut the shoe, or if she can sit in a plane, etc. is something I would feel bad or nervous about for NO REASON
That USA running outfit just blew my mind. I knew Cleo was next level attractive but whoa. Girl is in crazy good shape. Guessing she is a runner herself.
Oh! Cleo’s talking about a topic I can relate to! I’m a long distance runner that focuses on marathons. These days, you’ll see pretty much everyone in these shoes. It then becomes the great equalizer, especially now that pretty much every other running shoe brand has developed their own super shoe.. it took a few years and a few iterations, but most other brands now have shoes that meet or even surpass Nike’s Alphafly. The thing is, people don’t realize that though these shoes help your running economy, you still have to train. Months and months of training to reach your marathon goal. It’s not like a completely sedentary person can just buy these shoes and then complete a marathon the next day. Like you said, you get as much out of them as you put in.
Uh? No, I’m pretty sure people do realise that you still have to train. Nevertheless, they give you advantage over people with other shoes. What are you on about?
Hi there can u gimme a good Nike shoes recommendation for daily running. Ive been using Nike flex 2017 since 2017. And its almost time to buy a new one for me.
@mina86 I don't think you realise how much of a confidence booster brand new running shoes gives you, let alone new 'super shoes' that supposedly will break records, also most of the masses that do certain events even marathons hardly train for it, and usually leave their training rather late and close to the event, so people already have a poor relationship between training and racing in first place late alone with the idea that 'my super shoes will do most of the work for me'.
People do dumb things, and get dumb ideas, this isn't an uncommon concept XD
@sirsquid577, even if they leave the training rather late, they still train. No one buys the shoes day before the race and expect great result with no training.
I mean yes, the shoes are only returning your own energy to you so the more you put in the more benefit they will give you. That being said they still massively, massively increase efficiency. The current rules seem fair enough, that a product must have been on the market for 4 months and be available to anyone, plus the foam height limit and the carbon fiber plate limit. That seems like a good way to do it to me.
Awesome video. Awesone edit. Keep going like this. You have 1 more sub on your team.
11:36 what happened with the colors?
13:29 nah they did my guy dirty using his data with white and asian men
15:41 It’s so unfair that his estimated height was calculated using averages from other ethnicities, that are traditionally smaller. It feels almost like that they were looking for any technicality that would impede him from participating in the Olympics.
it's not the fact that those ethnic groups are typically smaller that makes the estimate doubtful, I guess the reasoning behind the criticism for it is that their body proportion might be, on average, different between ethnicities (I have no knowledge of that, but i can imagine being true) wich would skew the estimate
Is it? A lot of human proportions are the same across ethnicities, from my understanding.
@daexion Not at all. The human body size and measurements change depending on ethnicity, nutrition, and genetics. Salvadoran people, for example, are a lot smaller on average than the people from the US.
@TheCatWitch63I would say ethnicity plays the smallest part in determining body size and measurements if at all. A good example of this is that North Koreans and South Koreans are now considered ethnically distinct from each other but if you go back 70 or so years they had pretty much the same body size and measurements but modern day North Koreans are significantly smaller than their Southern counterparts due to malnutrition and a couple of other factors. They share similar genetics but have diverged due to the two populations being isolated from each other.
They might be off, but are they off by _5 inches?_ certainly not. On blades he’s taller than he would have been. How are you going to on hand regulate the height of foam padding in shoes, and on another hand allow 5 inches of extra perfectly calibrated human prosthetics. Is _that_ fair?
Interesting and fascinating!
Well done!
1:57 For those who don't know, supershoes do increase the risk of injury.
How?
@HeartyFuel they don't have many miles in them, and overuse of a single pair of supershoes can lead to injury
The Olympics is a place for athletes to showcase their talents, not a place for companies to show their technologies
I understand this video isn't about Nike specifically, its about the ban of gear that enhances performance. But I'm not a fan of Nike's business practices so I don't wear anything made by them anymore. I do love your channel Cleo. You're so in-depth and you have great topics and you are a joy to watch because you always seem so excited about whatever it is you're getting a chance to learn and share. I love learning new things and your videos are one of the many avenues I use to learn.
Which is?
@g8610g which is what?
@blackkitty420 What are nike's controversial business practices?
"I feel that one of the basic requirements of being a sprinter is having legs"
As a runner I have alpha flys and vapor flys and other regular training shoes. I do notice I can sometimes do better depending on the shoe, but I’m not sure how much of a placebo boost the shoes give me. I’ve also had good and terrible runs in super shoes so I know it’s not the equipment it’s the athlete that makes the biggest difference
Absolutely right, good comment. At the very top of every sport, the athletes are all maxed out in dozens of other variables... and then you throw a 2% gain on top of that. The percentage is important, too. For distance running, that adds up. For all levels below the elite, the shoes probably would only be one factor, amongst many that determine the outcome.
BS those shoes are proven faster. Total BS. Call yourself a runner.
3:27 dont have taco bell before your swim meet
I don't think organizations are banning techwear because it's exceeding human ability, it's because of the likely precedence of backdoor exclusivity deals by selling ever-evolving tech to the usual highest bidders _first_ (namely the USA, Gulf States, China etc), especially before a very specific quadrennial international sport event. We wouldn't even be having this discussion about banning tech if every single athlete from every corner of the world had indiscriminate access to the same wearables in every international event.
I think the other layer to this isn't just on-paper accessibility, but cost as well, especially at the amateur or qualifying levels where athletes aren't guaranteed to be able to afford the latest tech.
Like, for instance, someone from a less privileged background not making it through the tryouts for their collegiate track team because it was filled with rich kids wearing $250 Nike Vaporflys.
8:25 - I was surprised to see an Official Team USA Olympic Sports Bra in the mix.
It’s supposed to be a competition between the athletes’ abilities, not the tech. When the tech influences the results too much, it’s no longer a competition between humans but one between corporations.
I would love to see something like the Olympics but with all this tech with no limits. Imagine they take that Laserracer and keep using it, figuring out to improve finding the limit for such tech. Or the shoes, remove the limits; how much energy return can we truly get back. Or the runner blades, how fast; how improved can we make the human body go?
facts spoken fr
But, the tech should be given by the competition to the athletes so they can chose what they like?
@eb6884 when i was reading "with all this tech with no limits", I immediately imagine the athletes would compete with racecar instead lol
You mean a Sandevistan is unfair?
Can’t sprain an ankle, strain a calf muscle, get cramps or get tired lower legs with blades.
Everyone should be using the same technology. All or nothing.
There are set of others problems that comes with it, blisters, swelling, and burns on the stumps, and cramps usually hits in the hamstrings not lower legs.
but it is fair, any legged individual can opt in for a bit of surgery to get rid of the unwanted parts and get blades
Blades are 100% not fair unfortunately. Competing against other blade users, fine. But yeah I wasn't a fan when Pistorius was doing it and I haven't changed my mind now. They provide real, obvious benefits: they're incredibly springy, they consume no blood oxygen, they're much much lighter than a normal leg, they can't get tired or injured, it's just too many things to take into account and I do think it's better to have blade users race against each other instead of people with legs.
@PlaySA Oh I agree, they should simply class all the odds in the same group, they need to unwoke and simply say no that is an entire new category, let the odds compete against the odds.
I will poke the bear, Gender is not a state of mind and they should have 3 genders to compete separately "man", "woman", "other"
it is unfair to the spirit of the sport allowing so many men to ruin woman's sport, but hey one can of worms at a time right?
@PlaySA This has been research in depth, and always comes out as they do not have an advantage, show me the research that you build your opinion on.
0:43 calling that *blurred out pink object* grippy is absolutely diabolical
You and your videos are a comfort zone for me. And help my mind feel safe. Thank you. ❤
Long time no see!
Head of product had the worlds vaguest answer to the question haha
No tech should be banned, but you should not be allowed to use tech that isn't available for free to the other competitors the day you get access to it.
Thank you for great content as always! Love the insight into such a great variety of topics you bring to us. Chris
0:44 Grippy indeed 😂😂😏😏
Ayoooo
J Cole is like hmmm🤔
4:16 that's because goggles dont make you any faster. They just let you see the wall ahead of you so you dont slam into it ans cause injury. The speedo NASA suit completely enhanced one's ability to swim faster
they should just make a Super league where all tech enhancements and drugs are allowed in order to see what is physically possible in terms of biotechnological human innovation. it would be the most interesting thing that ever happened to sports and science. they could also even allow men and women compete against each other
Would only work in a dystopia. Otherwise it would encourage all kinds of unethical shit (think cybernetics, limb replacements, gene editing, deadly drug use, etc)
All tech is allowed? So I’ll just hop in my Lamborghini for the marathon 😂✌🏼
@zanido9073If it's consensual why would it be unethical? The entire point is to be the best combination of human+tech and see how much better you can be than an unaugmented human
@phreakhead Partly because to be the "best", people would take increasing risks. Doping is a very good example of that and it is perfectly normal for athlete to prefer not to have a cancer a few years after the end of their career.
Hah I was all for this idea until the comments underlined how people dumb people would risk dying on the spot just to get their name on a record.
Thanks for showing us this! Fascinating.. love shoes and seeing what makes anything work
actually the Alphafly series is the nerfed version of the Vaporfly Proto that used by Klipchoge (Vaporfly Proto got more than 40mm PEBA stack height, 3 Carbon Fiber plate, 4 Air Zoom pods. While Alphafly 3 is regulated spec, less than 40mm PEBA stack height, one carbon fiber plate, 2 Air Zoom Pods)
14:45 this part right here is so unscientific that they used a non race deterministic theoretical study. What if someone had a genetic mutation that I dunno increase growth rate in the lower extremities but was also then ablated by another mutation that stopped the growth during gestation. It's theoretically impossible to accurately correct something like that and to use a non race determined study to give any hypothetical measurement is so scientifically biased
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You got to run in a space suit AND Olympian gear? You're the coolest!
Especially that last part was ethically very interesting. He was too tall? But how does that work for people who are actually tall and use that to an advantage? Should they also be disqualified because their height is unfair to other athletes?
i had the same question it is a rule that needs more questioning and better understanding. Because i get where they are coming from but that is not a level playing field from my eyes
Not too tall. I think they claim that he had unnatural proportions , which gave him an advantage (lower body much longer, given his total height). But still, some people have longer legs than others that have the same height. I imagine that there would be some negotiations about the final height they decided that it was "fair" to compete with. But yeah, given also the disadvantages of having blades (e.g. reduced acceleration), what is "fair" is not really measurable and it's going to be subjective.
I get the impression that they were just looking for any reason to disqualify him.
@elladesigns9609 as they should. Paraolympics exist for people that can't take part in the olympics without corrective equipment. It's that simple. Blades change entirely the sort of person competing. Now...if you want to say corrective equipment is allowed then there is a case for having no paraolympics. You decide. Can't have it both ways
@StevenGV1Completely agree, but you can twist it other way saying:
- If people born with an advantage is ok, that means that any natural barrier created is ok and should remain that way.
-So why shooters can wear glasses?
"Welcome to Nike's test lab" -Casually trips-
Having tech accessible to everyone should be the minimum requirement when it comes to new tech so as to avoid unfair advantage
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