Research in sports biomechanics helps explain exactly what’s happening inside these shoes. While super shoes are clearly ... that are traditionally used in trainers. PEBA foam is also lighter ...

All four of these runners, as well as many others this year, were wearing a relatively new type of shoe technology known as super spikes ... have all been used in running shoes for decades ...

But there’s a problem: thanks to so-called “super shoes”, we may not know if the person who crosses the line first really is the fastest runner in the truest sense of the word. Then came the ...