Athletics: Unsponsored elite runners to be lent carbon-fibre shoes, says track and field's world body

July 29, 2020 12:04 PMPARIS (AFP) - World Athletics on Tuesday (July 28) announced that it was creating a scheme to lend elite runners without sponsorship deals the same carbon-fibre versions of shoes that have revolutionised road running, in an acceptance that the advances in technology are irreversible.