Stop me if you’ve heard this before. An athlete smashes the world record in special shoes that L’Équipe says act as “little trampolines” and Sports Illustrated warns “take advantage of the easygoing old rules”. But the athlete in question is not Eliud Kipchoge or Brigid Kosgei. And the shoes are not Nike Vaporflys, with their platforms that could have been borrowed from the Bay City Rollers.
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