How a waffle iron helped create running shoes

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Breakfast tools are apparently the secret to Olympic sprinting. An athletics coach completely destroyed his wife's waffle iron by pouring liquid rubber into it, accidentally pioneering modern running footwear while severely compromising his morning meal.

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