Sporting super spikes: how do they work? – podcast
by Presented by Shivani Dave. Produced by Max Sanders from Science | The Guardian on (#5MM6Z)
In the lead-up to the athletics competitions at the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020, Shivani Dave takes look at how advances in running shoe technology are resulting in records being smashed. Talking to Geoff Burns, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan who specialises in biomechanics, Shivani asks how so-called super spikes' work and if the mechanical advantage they provide is fair
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