Some of Kenya’s star athletes at the world cross-country championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, sprinted to the finishing line barefoot.
Would they have done even better in shoes?
“Hardly not – they had got it right”, says Prof Daniel Lieberman of Harvard University.
After sampling 200 elite runners from Kenya and the US, Prof Lieberman and colleagues from the universities of Moi, in Eldoret, and Glasgow, in the UK, say barefoot running is safer and more comfortable than shod feet.
Daily Nation
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