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Article: New shoe ready for fast track
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- August 10, 2000
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A STATE-of-the-art running shoe, tailor-made to match the
individual vibrations of its wearer, has been unveiled by
scientists.
The new shoe may help athletes to shatter several records at the
Olympic Games in Sydney this September, its inventors claim.
Scientists from the Human Performance Laboratory at the
University of Calgary in Canada, who gave details of the shoe in New
Scientist magazine, said the footwear could cut four minutes off a
marathon runner's time - and help frail elderly people to
walkfurther for longer.
Conventional
The shoe is made from conventional materials but the blend of
material, ...