Australian researchers said Thursday they had found no scientific proof that hi-tech running shoes improve athletic performance or limit injury.

Newcastle University physiologist Craig Richards said the myth of the modern exploded into a running shoe had vast industry since the 1970s but a study of

sports medicine literature since 1950 found there was no scientific proof they worked."A collective psyche has developed around these shoes," Richards, the

lead researcher, said. "It's so ingrained now that to even suggest that there's no evidence that they work gets a very rude reaction from people."The post

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