{"id":129794,"date":"2020-01-29T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/29\/controversial-nike-vaporflys-to-escape-ban-but-running-shoe-rules-will-tighten\/"},"modified":"2020-01-29T01:03:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T00:03:00","slug":"controversial-nike-vaporflys-to-escape-ban-but-running-shoe-rules-will-tighten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=129794","title":{"rendered":"Controversial Nike Vaporflys to escape ban but running shoe rules will tighten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Dominant footwear will be allowed by World Athletics\u2022 No fresh technologies to be permitted until after Tokyo 2020World Athletics will not be imposing a blanket ban on the controversial hi-tech Nike Vaporflys that have transformed athletics when it announces its long-awaited decision on shoe technology on Friday, the Guardian understands.Instead the sport\u2019s governing body is expected to announce a temporary suspension of any new shoe technology until after the Tokyo Olympics this summer, alongside the launch of a comprehensive research project to examine just how advantageous the shoes, and others like it from rival brands, are at elite level. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/jan\/28\/controversial-nike-vaporflys-escape-ban\" target=\"_blank\">Controversial Nike Vaporflys to escape ban but running shoe rules will tighten<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Dominant footwear will be allowed by World Athletics\u2022 No fresh technologies to be permitted until after Tokyo 2020World Athletics will not be imposing a blanket ban on the controversial hi-tech Nike Vaporflys that have transformed athletics when it announces its long-awaited decision on shoe technology on Friday, the Guardian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}