Why the Olympics Almost Banned This Shoe

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When is sports equipment so good that it becomes cheating?
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There is a ton of cool sports equipment that is banned in sports because it makes athletes look too good. Swimsuits that make the swimmer too streamlined, gloves that make the catcher's hands too grippy, bats that allow the player to hit the ball too hard, and shoes that help a runner go too fast…

They call it “TECH DOPING,” which is using physical equipment to gain an unfair advantage. In this video, I'll show you the banned equipment that you won't see at the Paris Olympics, as well as the cutting-edge technologies that you will see, at the limit of what is allowed.

You might be thinking: wait, no equipment should give athletes an advantage! But… we don’t run barefoot anymore. We don't swim naked. We use technology to play sports. And this technology is constantly improving, advancing what humans can do.

So… where is the limit?

It's about much more than sport. In all areas of our lives, technology advances what we can do! And it's up to us to decide what we expect from it. This video addresses this question.
We talked with athletes, reviewed the world's best gear, and even went to Nike's testing lab to try on Team USA's real Olympic uniforms. It’s the cutting edge of sports technology, he explains.

Chapters:
0:00 What is “technological doping”?
1:48 What equipment should be banned?
3:10 The fastest swimsuit in the world
4:23 Should this be allowed?
5:24 The fastest shoes in the world
6:28 I opened a super shoe
8:32 What makes supershoes so fast?
9:28 I try on the American team's 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 right?
4:38 p.m. 😉

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Biography :
Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated freelance video journalist. On her show Huge If True, Cleo explores complex technology topics with rigor and optimism, helping her audiences understand the world around them and envision a positive future they can help build. Before going freelance, 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 lead producer of Vox's first-ever daily show, Answered, and was co-host and producer of Vox's YouTube Originals show, Glad You Asked.

Further reading and viewing:
– Grab and Go: How Sticky Gloves Changed Football, New York: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/20/sports/super-bowl-nfl-gloves.html
– Space Age swimsuit reduces drag and breaks records, NASA: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/ch_4.html
– Swimming bans high-tech wetsuits, ending an era, New York: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/sports/25swim.html
– FINA LZR riders' decision: https://www.pvswim.org/official/rules/FINA_Swimsuits_2009-07.pdf
– Nike's fastest shoes could give runners an even bigger advantage than we thought: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/13/upshot/nike-vaporfly-next -percent-shoe-estimates. HTML
– Supershoes are reshaping distance running, MIT Technology Review: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/25/1093520/supershoes-running-kenya-carbon-plate-shoes/
– The controversy behind Nike's Vaporfly running shoe, explained, WSJ: https://youtu.be/wVXrIaPuP7c?si=btJyElVpQjbUpzaQ
– The science behind the world's fastest shoe, Cheddar: https://youtu.be/Mm61IkzyJxI?si=py7XHYQGOwgP4TYQ
– How Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon under 2 hours, Mike Boyd: https://youtu.be/A73HQwEct-o?si=uUk3mSj1YRR6KLXM
– He could be the first American amputee at the Olympics, Blake Leeper, Great Big Story: https://youtu.be/_P9GXINym4s?si=_y8JL-7n9qw2x6_J
– The shoe is so good that the Olympics declared it a cheat, half as interesting: https://youtu.be/JRyqd0Z6kZI?si=8m1tfbmprNcRKOPl

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