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As Trials Approach, Three Contenders Speak On State Of Shoes Jan 22, 2020 - FloTrack

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As Trials Approach, Three Contenders Speak On State Of Shoes Jan 22, 2020 - FloTrack

As Trials Approach, Three Contenders Speak On State Of Shoes Jan 22, 2020 - FloTrack

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 02:11 PM PST

As the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials rapidly draw near, tensions surrounding the fate of Nike's controversial Vaporfly shoes are at an all-time high. Reports in recent weeks that World Athletics is set to ban the shoe have led to speculation of when a potential rule change would be made and what specifically the governing body seeks to outlaw. With less than 40 days until Atlanta, both action or inaction by World Athletics will be a major storyline in the race for Tokyo. 

The uncertainty— will World Athletics ban the Vaporfly Next%, or its successor, the Alphafly, or both?— has consumed the road racing scene of late and left some non-Nike sponsored pros wondering if they will be at a disadvantage with an Olympic team on the line. Interestingly, though, opinions are varied among these athletes about the fairness of the technology.

This past Sunday in Houston, we spoke to three prominent non-Nike U.S. marathoners who have had a front row seat to the footwear revolution: Saucony's Jared Ward and Molly Huddle, and Asics' Sara Hall. Their responses on the matter run the gamut from non-issue to a full blown unfair advantage.

Jared Ward, Saucony ("[The technology] is going to even out.")

"Shoes are in a revolutionary phase right now and it's changing. We redid the Nike study at BYU, and found [athletes were] 2.7% more efficient in those shoes. But at the same time, we were working with the Saucony and the shoes that I'm racing in, and those ones were better [too].

There's something to the headlines, but like anything, in time it's all going to even out. Companies adjust, people will recognize what goes well and what doesn't. So I think whether you regulate it or whether they leave it unregulated, it's going to self-regulate in terms of equal advantage with time.

To World Athletics or whoever is making the decision, I think it just comes down to whether they are willing to live through a phase of a few years where there are some different advantages depending on which athletes are with companies that are responding quickly and getting shoes out there, versus whether they want to step in and regulate it to prevent that or whether they want to let that be the case for a short phase— a couple of years— and then everything's going to self-regulate eventually anyway. I don't know that I worry about it, I guess, is the short answer.

Ultimately, I think there's a lot more power in the mind than we can measure or give credit to it. All the stuff that we can measure ends up sometimes being smaller things, they're just the only things that we can measure. I think there's a lot more going on than the shoes. I think we're running in a marathon era with some of the best marathoners on the world stage ever. Shoes are helping, but Eliud Kipchoge is really, really good."

Molly Huddle, Saucony ("It's kind of the wild west right now.")

"There were a lot of Vaporflys around me today I noticed. People were just popping off the ground in those. Obviously, we [Saucony] have the Endorphin Pro (a carbon-plated shoe), which, I'm kind of working through some ankle problems so I'm not wearing it today. 

But it will be interesting to see what happens the next couple weeks. It sounds like the World Athletics working group is making some decisions on the shoe, so we'll see what they say. I'm pretty comfortable in a low stack height just because of my biomechanical issues so that's kind of what I'm sticking with for now.

I think the next iteration of the shoe, like the Alphafly we saw Kipchoge wearing, it just seems like it's getting bigger and bigger and more plates and more return. So I think they need to regulate it somehow to make sure that we're not coming out with something that's doing too much work. Basically, the shoe just does a lot of work. If it's going to be the next wave of shoe technology, there needs to be some guidelines. It's kind of the wild west right now."

Sara Hall, Asics ("There's definitely an unfair advantage.")

"It's frustrating. I think there needs to be limits. It's our governing bodies that have kind of let us down. Every other sport has limits to gear, and it's becoming an issue for sure in our sport. I'm just focused on doing what I'm doing. I had the fastest time in the U.S. last year without carbon [plates]. I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing out there.

We're hoping there will be a decision before the Trials. There's definitely an unfair advantage right there. All the companies are kind of trying to play catch up to that technology. It seems like Nike intentionally keeps things under wraps so that they can debut them at these big events. That's definitely their plan for the Trials, too. But we'll see. Hopefully the governing bodies steps up and create an even playing field for us." 

Social media deal for designer shoes ends in armed robbery, assault in Allegheny Co. - WPXI Pittsburgh

Posted: 22 Jan 2020 06:10 PM PST

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Social media deal for designer shoes ends in armed robbery, assault in Allegheny Co.  WPXI Pittsburgh

Police: Muncie house burglar targeted clothing, shoes - The Star Press

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 05:18 AM PST

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MUNCIE, Ind. — City police said a convicted burglar targeted clothing — and a $300 pair of shoes — when he recently broke into a local home.

David Steven McDaniel, 43, was arrested this week on preliminary counts of burglary and theft,

A Muncie resident reported on Dec. 28 that someone had entered his home and stolen a pair of Jordan Bred shoes, a nylon athletic jacket and a red hooded sweatshirt.

An investigator said McDaniel later sold the shoes to the Plato's Closet used clothing store, and tried to sell a "red puffy jacket" that had been taken in the burglary.

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McDaniel used his own name in making the shoe deal, a report said, and the transaction was also captured on surveillance video.

Taken into custody on Monday, McDaniel reportedly acknowledged entering the victim's home.

"He stated he needed clothing and took the shoes and jackets from inside but left the electronics," officer Bryan Ashton wrote.

McDaniel said he later sold the red jacket to an unknown person outside a West Memorial Drive convenience store.

He was wearing the stolen hooded sweatshirt at the time of his arrest, according to Ashton.

The Muncie man continued to be held in the Delaware County jail on Thursday under a $15,000 bond.

McDaniel's criminal record includes convictions for burglary, conversion, dealing in meth, possession of meth, public intoxication and theft.

Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.

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Elijah Hughes and his shoe obsession: ‘I could sit here and talk hours and hours about sneakers’ - syracuse.com

Posted: 23 Jan 2020 04:22 AM PST

Syracuse, N.Y. – Elijah Hughes is pondering the question, rifling through his memory to arrive at a reasonable estimate.

First, the Syracuse basketball forward needs parameters. Are we including every sneaker or just basketball shoes? Should we count the shoes he's given away to friends? The ones back home in Beacon?

With established guidelines, Hughes estimates he owns 70 to 80 pairs of athletic shoes scattered between his Syracuse apartment, his Melo Center locker and his home in downstate New York. For the entirety of a tightly focused conversation, Hughes will talk about his love for these shoes. He will detail how he buys his size 14s. He will debate the merits of his favorite shoes. He will discuss the stealthy way he selects shoes for each game. He will reveal that during dead balls in basketball games he chats up opponents on their shoe choice and might even ask how they found a particularly rare shoe.

Hughes, all told, is a gushing fountain of shoe fashion information. His teammates acknowledge he reigns as SU's undisputed shoe king.

"Every time he brings in a new pair, everyone gets interested in what he's going to wear. Even the coaches," Buddy Boeheim said. "He's got a little bit of everything. He's definitely the shoe champion of the team."

"Yeah," said Quincy Guerrier, who shares a shoe passion. "Elijah really likes shoes."

To be perfectly clear, Hughes said he does not compete with teammates for shoe dominance. He does not compete with them, he insists, because the playing field is so unevenly distributed.

"There's no competition. I have the coolest shoes. People are smarter than that. They know better," he said. "Joe (Girard) has a lot, but he doesn't compete with me. Quincy has some, but he doesn't compete with me. Not even close."

This quest to own cool kicks, to exhibit his personality through footwear, started in tenth grade. Hughes cares only obliquely about clothes. The first thing he notices about a person is his or her footwear. Shoes captivate him.

He prowls various websites seeking the latest, the rarest, the kind of kicks that match his personal style. He "spends hours" scrolling through Instagram, eBay, sites like Flight Club and StockX. He follows the stylings of NBA shoe king P.J. Tucker. Guerrier said he and Hughes often discuss the pair of shoes Tucker most recently wore.

The first thing Hughes checks on these web hunts is whether his size 14 is available. He prefers older shoes, the Kobe 5s, the KD 4s. He likes to play in KD 4s, because "they're a beautiful shoe." He finds them comfortable, too, but for Hughes, style surpasses comfort. He won't abandon shoes because he experiences a poor shooting night while wearing them. He's not superstitious. But he is particular.

"It's a fashion statement," he said. "I'm up on new releases, all that kind of stuff. I'm big on Old School shoes – old Kobes or old KDs. I've always tried to not fit in when it comes to shoes."

He will wear some of the approximately 40 pairs stashed in Syracuse on the basketball court this season. Hughes planned to wear a different pair for every game this year but admits he's freed himself from that ambition. He sent a reporter a photo of a jumble of shoes in his apartment with a disclaimer: He would only photograph the shoes he's already worn this year. There are some "exclusives" he won't reveal until game night.

Syracuse is a Nike school, so Hughes wears Nikes for games and practices. When he played at East Carolina, an Adidas school, he owned a few rare Derrick Rose and Damian Lillard models.

Hughes acknowledges shoe obsessions can be costly. He pins the price of the most expensive shoes he owns at $600. A former girlfriend bought them for his birthday.

"Yeah, it was a pretty big gift. And I really appreciated them, too," he said. "They're actually a pair of Jordan 1s, my favorite shoe of all time. I was really excited about them. I still have them."

Look closely at Hughes' lower left leg. A tattoo of a Jordan 1 is inked into his calf. Those shoes are strictly for "chilling," he said. They never see a basketball court.

Hughes selects his game shoes a couple days before each contest. He usually wears them to practice to establish a feel. When players from opposing teams emerge from their tunnel pre-game, Hughes inspects their shoes. Then, he asks about them.

"There's been times in college where I've seen guys and I'm like, 'Yo, how'd you get those?' I'll talk to guys at the free-throw line, like 'Yo, those are tough, where'd you get those?' Happens all the time," Hughes said. "Mamadi Diakite played in the Nike Skills Academy Kobe 4s. Those are rare shoes. Last year, Justin Robinson of Virginia Tech, he had Nike Zoom Generation 1 Lebrons: Lebron's first shoe. I remember talking to him about them. It's a culture. I do this stuff all the time."

His teammates understand Hughes' obsession. They bow to his shoe brilliance. They, too, are entranced by the unveiling of each new pair of Hughes shoes.

"There's been times I've come into the locker room," he said, "and guys are like 'Yo!' Everybody's going crazy and I'm like 'What? Oh, it's my shoes?' Yeah, I love sneakers. I really love sneakers. I could sit here and talk hours and hours about sneakers. Hours and hours."

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