Are "super-shoes" giving some runners an unfair advantage?
Kelvin Kiptum has just set a new world record for a marathon wearing 鈥渟uper-shoes鈥�.
The Kenyan runner Kelvin Kiptum has just set a new marathon world record. He did it wearing 鈥渟uper-shoes鈥�. Sports brands are racing to design new trainers which are lighter and have clever geometry to propel runners forward.
Bobbie Jackson from 大象传媒 Sport and Celestine Karoney from 大象传媒 Sport Africa discuss whether they really make a difference - and is it fair if some athletes wear them?
And in the week of Halloween and Day of the Dead, Mathias Clasen, Co-Director of the Recreational Fear Lab at Aarhus University in Denmark, answers our question; 鈥淲hy do some people love scaring themselves?鈥�
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