Monday, 8 February 2021
The poker players of men’s pole vault, where the stakes are already sky high this year, are set to play it again in the northern French city of Liévin tomorrow in the third of this season’s World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meetings.
Five 6.00 metres-plus vaulters will gather at the Arena Stade Couvert, including the two men who have been seeing and raising each other’s efforts in the space of the last few weeks - France’s very own Renaud Lavillenie and Mondo Duplantis, the 21-year-old who succeeded him as world record holder last year.
Geoff Burns, former USATF 100km champ, and PHd shoe expert joined us on this weekś LEpodcast to talk supershoes this week. We talked a lot about road shoes but then turned to super spikes.
He says the playing field is still not fair and he also expects a big shakeup in track times this year as more athletes race in super spikes.
His comment on spikes 2021 on the track is going to look like 2018 on the roads. Many people might say that is a good thing. Bad news however he said, I don t think we have a shoe we don t have other spikes that are competitive with Nike