This Adidas shoe was the common thread between those world record-breaking London Marathon runners

On April 26, all eyes turned to the London Marathon as the event became the site of multiple broken records in long-distance running. Fans watched with bated breath as their favorite athletes crossed the finish line, but there was one detail that the top runners had in common that viewers might not have noticed—and it had to do with their feet. The marathon included multiple sport-defining highlights. Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe set a new world record of 1:59.30 (the first sub-two-hour marathon in...