New Olympic girls’s marathon champion Sifan Hassan, double Olympic gold medallist Eliud Kipchoge and bronze medallist Hellen Obiri have been seen sporting unusual headbands in the course of the Paris Olympic marathons, leaving spectators questioning what goal these uncommon items of attire served.
In fact, elite athletes aren’t any strangers to the most recent hi-tech tools and the Olympics function a great place to showcase merchandise to a world viewers.
Sifan Hassan and Tigist Assefa (Getty)
Over time Kipchoge has worn Nike’s newest footwear improvements, courting again in Rio 2016 the place he wore the primary prototypes of the Nike ‘Subsequent %’ sneakers disguised as in-line merchandise. This finally led to World Athletics ruling that each one merchandise must be obtainable to all athletes.
In different marathons, Kipchoge has been seen sporting stick-on tape on his legs to assist airflow.
Eliud Kipchoge (Getty)
Obiri was sporting On’s newest footwear within the girls’s Olympic marathon, the CloudBoom LS. The LS which means LightSpray, is a novel higher created by spraying a polymer instantly on to the midsole unit of the shoe to scale back weight and create a second-skin-like match.
The £330 CloudBoom LS will likely be that can be purchased later this yr, however a model with out the LS higher is at present on sale.
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The headscarf each athletes wore was an OMIUS headband with 20 cooling items. The cooling items are graphite coated in a hydrophilic materials that’s stated to “optimise the uptake and evaporation of the water that powers the cooling impact”.
Hellen Obiri (Getty)
The model says the scarf must be moist earlier than use and “will cool indefinitely so long as they’re moist” – the speculation being that they act like a ‘heatsink’ seen in engineering tools.
Omius headband
You may learn extra in regards to the OMIUS headbands and tools right here.
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