No record is safe with IAAF poised to allow arms race in shoes to run and run | Sean Ingle

Ruling body’s technological committee meets on Monday and is likely to wave through Nike footwear worn to shatter marathon-distance recordsIt is the shoes, stupid. Anyone who says otherwise is deluded.Without those chunky, super-fast prototype Nike alphaFLYs – the ones with platforms to make Ziggy Stardust swoon – Eliud Kipchoge does not shatter the two-hour marathon-distance barrier in Vienna. Related: Nike’s lightning shoes hint at power of technology to skew elite comp