The Shoe That Broke Running

When is sports gear so good it’s actually cheating? Subscribe for more optimistic science and tech stories! There is a ton of cool sports gear that’s banned from sports for making athletes too good. Swimsuits that make a swimmer too streamlined, gloves that make a receiver’s hands too grippy, bats that let a player hit the ball too hard, and shoes that help a runner go too freaking fast… They call it “TECH DOPING,” using physical gear to gain an unfair advantage. In this video, I’ll show you the banned gear you won’t see at the Paris Olympics, and the cutting edge tech you will see that’s on the very limit of what’s allowed. You might be thinking, hold on, no gear should give athletes an advantage! But… we don’t run barefoot anymore. We don’t swim naked. We use tech to play sports. And that tech is always improving, pushing forward what humans can do. So… where’s the line? This is about way more than sports. In every part of our lives, technology pushes forward what we can do! And it’s up to us to decide what we want from it. This video is about that question. We talked to athletes, looked at the world’s best gear, and even went all the way to Nike’s test lab to try on the real Team USA Olympic uniforms. This is the cutting edge of sports tech, explained. Chapters: 0:00 What is “technology doping”? 1:48 What gear should be banned? 3:10 The world’s fastest swimsuit 4:23 Should this be allowed? 5:24 The world’s fastest shoes 6:28 I cut open a supershoe 8:32 What makes supershoes so fast? 9:28 I try the Team USA 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 fair? 16:38 ;) You can find me on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/cleoabram On TikTok here: https://www.tiktok.com/@cleoabram Or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/cleoabram Bio: Cleo Abram is an Emmy-nominated independent video journalist. On her show, Huge If True, Cleo explores co