Nike's CEO joked the brand's controversial Vaporfly running shoes help him walk faster at work
about 500,000 marathon and half-marathon running times between 2014 and 2018. It found that"runners in Vaporflys ran 3 to 4 percent faster than similar runners wearing other shoes, and more than 1 percent faster than the next-fastest racing shoe."
Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge — who broke the marathon world record with a time of 2:01:39 in September 2018 — wore a version of the shoes toin October, shaving 81 seconds off the previous women's world record.
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