They were a free gift from Nike.
There are more foot injuries in olympic athletes who go barefoot, and they have more problems with traction.
Nike supply them free for the athletes. The yellow theme is a ploy by their clever marketing people. I guess it works cos it's brought your attention to them!
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When Christofer was 15 he got really bad athletes foot and that made him kinda just stop wearing shoes since.
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No Chris Hawkins is not wearing shoes.
Athletes shoes often have cleats on them to improve grip in dirt or grassy feilds.
they have different bars and mats and also the athletes wear spikes on their shoes. Back then they diddn't have spikes on their shoes US Athlete Dick Fosbury was no flop......
no.
He was not wearing shoes as he was in bed when he died.
Yes they wear shoes with spikes at the bottom of it.
The athletes get free shoes and clothing from different brands. The yellow shoes are Nike and are made to custom fit each individual athletes feet by Nike labs & engineering. Nike makes sponsorship deals with all types of athletes from all countries of the world. Some are really small deals that just include a few pairs of shoes and clothing for the athlete and some are large deals that include millions of dollars with shoes and clothing but most are somewhere in between. After all, the marketing department at Nike wants publicity and all the yellow shoes on 90% of the best athletes in world at the most world watched event is a pretty good way to get it!! The "yellow" on the shoes is 100% marketing!!