Are "super-shoes" giving some runners an unfair advantage?
Kelvin Kiptum has just set a new world record for a marathon wearing βsuper-shoesβ.
The Kenyan runner Kelvin Kiptum has just set a new marathon world record. He did it wearing βsuper-shoesβ. Sports brands are racing to design new trainers which are lighter and have clever geometry to propel runners forward.
Bobbie Jackson from ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sport and Celestine Karoney from ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Sport Africa discuss whether they really make a difference - and is it fair if some athletes wear them?
And in the week of Halloween and Day of the Dead, Mathias Clasen, Co-Director of the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark, answers our question; βWhy do some people love scaring themselves?β
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