Abstract
New tech for the Olympics When some Olympic athletes benefit from developments in materials science, it can kick up a heap of controversy, as it leads some to question if this gives an advantage to athletes who have enough money or sponsors to afford the new technology. Think Australian sprinter Cathy Freeman in 2000 wearing her air-parting polyurethane-coated hooded bodysuit, US swimmer Michael Phelps and others in 2008 who wore go-faster polyurethane shark skin–patterned swimsuits and collected 98% of the indoor swimming medals, and all three male marathon medalists in 2016 who wore Nike Vaporfly 4% road-running shoes featuring a carbon-fiber plated sole that cut the metabolic energy they expended by 4%. This summer’s Tokyo Olympics promises to be no different. This Newscriptster’s hunch is that the latest tech leap will involve novel designs and materials for track shoes with spikes on the bottom. Until now spikes were designed to
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