New Olympic girls’s marathon champion Sifan Hassan, double Olympic gold medallist Eliud Kipchoge and bronze medallist Hellen Obiri have been seen carrying unusual headbands in the course of the Paris Olympic marathons, leaving spectators questioning what function these uncommon items of attire served.
After all, elite athletes are not any strangers to the newest hi-tech tools and the Olympics function a super 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 %’ footwear disguised as in-line merchandise. This in the end led to World Athletics ruling that each one merchandise must be out there 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 carrying On’s newest footwear within the girls’s Olympic marathon, the CloudBoom LS. The LS which means LightSpray, is a singular higher created by spraying a polymer straight on to the midsole unit of the shoe to cut back weight and create a second-skin-like match.
The £330 CloudBoom LS will probably be that can be purchased later this 12 months, however a model with out the LS higher is at present on sale.
READ MORE: Greatest marathon footwear for me and ladies
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 mentioned to “optimise the uptake and evaporation of the water that powers the cooling impact”.
Hellen Obiri (Getty)
The model says the headscarf 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’ll be able to learn extra in regards to the OMIUS headbands and tools right here.
» Subscribe to AW journal right here
