“Track athletes started wearing super spikes about five years ago and they are now commonplace in elite track races,” says Wouter Hoogkamer, assistant professor of kinesiology at UMass Amherst ...

And, so far in Paris, athletes wearing either the Air Zoom Victory 2 or Dragonfly 2 have won all six of the men’s and women’s ...

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Most world-class women use poles over 14 feet in ... gradually sloping up to track level at the far end. It's lined with a synthetic surface thick enough to allow the runners spikes to grip. At the ...

A new study published in the Journal of Sport and Health Science shows that advanced footwear technology, known as “super ...

Girls volleyball has never been so popular. Participation has increased every year since at least 1980 — excluding the ...

Those on contraception didn’t have that spike, and they were also less hyper-competitive (meaning less driven to compete) and more likely to lack interest in competition. Overall, women on ...

The railroad spike, with an offset head, is mostly used to secure rails and base plates to railroad ties in the track. In 1832, Robert Livingston Stevens invented the first railroad spike and it is ...

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Research shows that super spikes, scientifically described as advanced footwear technology (AFT) spikes, can give runners about a 2% edge in middle-distance track races, like the 800- and 1,500-meters ...

Coaches — on a recent evening all but one were women and most were former college ... a figure second only to outdoor track and field (486,355), according to the National Federation of State ...