The "super shoe" hit like a bomb in the world of athletics and the runners who used them broke their records at a fast pace. The shoe was quickly debated and at the beginning of the year, the International Athletics Federation, World Athletics, came out with changed shoe rules. A regulatory framework that has received a lot of criticism for being unclear and now it is changing again.

The rule that the shoes must have been available on the public market for at least four months is abolished after pressure from several active runners.

The new thing is that as long as a shoe meets the requirements and is approved by Wold Athletics, they are allowed to run in.

Should be fair

But the rules are not entirely clear and the Swedish Athletics Association, led by Secretary General Stefan Olsson, thinks that the issue is worth investigating further.

- It is important that we continue to protect and help the active, where somewhere it is the best runner who will win and not the best shoe manufacturer, says Stefan Olsson to SVT Sport.

He continues:
- That piece of justice is fundamental for athletics in general, we want to safeguard it in the future, and therefore it is important to work with this issue, he says.

During Wednesday night's Swedish Championships in semi-finals which was decided at Anderstorp Raceway, Samuel Russom from Göta won in a model of the so-called super shoe.