I thought the same, re: dates, on reading that article 
I don’t get this part?
The Next% 2 are still called Vaporfly.
The boing boing shoes are distinctly called AlphaFly - I’ve never seen them called VaporFly?
So…the question remains why they’ve not worn the Alphas?
Maybe to not get called out for equipment doping?
Nike StreakFly = Pegasus Turbo replacement
Didn’t the winner of the women’s marathon wear Adidas?
Dunno?
in cycling, the magazines and YouTube spend hours musing over every athletes equipment choice.
Yet it seems to be bypassed in running?
Yeah that article was written by someone with zero clue at all.
Very much depends what you mean by boing boing. 2 plates and higher than 42mm stack? (illegal )
Alphas do seem to falling out of favour a bit. A lot of runners find them less stable than the Next% but that would be course dependent.
Fair point. I was meaning in terms of the various big ticket iterations of the shoe.
Right from the first Breaking 2 shoe, and the first version that was released after that, they started with Vaporfly Elite. Then they released the Vaporfly 4% flyknit. Then the Vaporfly NEXT%. But the Alphafly, which was next along the iterative path, dropped vaporfly entirely. But you are of course correct that they then released a slight tweak to the vaporfly NEXT% with the NEXT%2. But in firmware speak, I’d call that a 3.1 update of 3.0, rather than the alphafly which was meant to be 4.0, if you get what I mean.
Yeah - totally (now!)
I find it odd that they kept the Next% moniker for the Alpha’s when it’s a totally different shoe to the Next% Vaporfly 
@FatPom - Yeah - the “boing boing” is the AlphaFly. I much prefer them to the Vaporfly Next%. I even prefer the Alpha’s over the 4% Flyknit 
Had a google, Jepchirchir was wearing Adidas shoes. Quite a few of the men were in the Asics.
Trains into Paris are just generally so much better from all directions. You could look at “nice” places to stay too like Le Mans, Tours, Orleans, Chartres, Rouens, Reims, etc and there will be multiple trains everyday. Or look at the RER or Paris commuter train network - Rambouillet and st German en laye are all lovely spots.
As you say, hotels will be horrific so I’ll be looking at similar options and balancing it with the cost of trains and things to do on days when I don’t want to be in crowded paris.
Yelistratova has just been announced as a positive test for EPO at Tokyo…… another cheating f*****g triathlete. She can get in the sea along with Vinokourov to never be seen again in return for dragging out sport’s name through the mud. Hope she has all her ITU victories taken off her.
Looks like she has had two AAFs in 2021. Crazy.
I mentioned this before the Olympics started
she was tested positive in Ukraine and withdrwan from the start list for Tokyo so never raced.
EPO 
I’m no expert on these things, but how can it be that a test taken on 5 June 2021 only results in a report to World Triathlon on 24 July 2021?
That seems like a hell of a slow turnaround.
no idea sorry
it doesn’t take long to conduct the analysis - although there may be a barrage of tests depending on the targeted drugs/intelligence received - but i doubt they have loads of analysts just sitting around waiting for samples to come in…
I think it’s all the protocols now. We tend not to hear about positives until both A & B sample have been analysed these days - in the past it hit the press before even the athlete knew the results of the A sample test.
And from my short time dealing with elites the initial consent is only for testing the “A” sample so you’d have to get another consent for “B” sample testing. I suspect most athletes would delay that consent while they conjure up an excuse.
Regardless - silly girl. She won’t be welcome back I imagine. Was there some other stuff with the EPO.
Very silly girl - but sadly she probably will be back…
