{"id":37349,"date":"2026-03-16T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/?p=37349"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:01:27","slug":"running-as-style-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/running-as-style-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Running as Style (III): On the Track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Within athletics, distance runners and trail runners are the closest to the public. After all, they share the start line, the course, and the finish line with amateur runners. Track athletes, on the other hand, are more accustomed to facing the crowd as if it were a stage. The stars of track and field live off performance, but they also enjoy adding something else: their own style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edwin Moses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A man who didn\u2019t lose a race from August 1977 to June 1987 (9 years, 9 months, and 9 days), broke the world record four times, and even went on to win a medal in the world championships of bobsleigh. Yet he is also remembered for the sunglasses and gold chains he wore while competing in Seoul in 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ato Boldon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago often stood in the shadow of some of the biggest names of the 1990s\u2014Frankie Fredericks, Maurice Greene, Donovan Bailey, or Michael Johnson. In 2000, at the Sydney Olympic Games, he decided to make an impact with more than just his speed: his Oakley OVERTHETOP sunglasses. He wasn\u2019t the only one, but he became the most visible representative of a piece of eyewear that would go down in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vashti Cunningham<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When you\u2019ve been the United States high jump champion sixteen times, it\u2019s no surprise that Nike<\/a> includes you in its campaigns. What\u2019s less common is for Vashti\u2014daughter of legendary quarterback Randall Cunningham\u2014to also appear in campaigns for brands unrelated to her sport. Interestingly, on the track she prefers to remain understated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Florence Griffith<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The most frequent reference when we talk about athletics and style: the woman who understood that every competition was also a spectacle. Nails, hair, and outfits designed for each occasion became the benchmark for women\u2019s sprinting style, inspiring athletes like Gail Devers, Sha\u2019Carri Richardson, and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce. And her influence went beyond track and field, crossing into other sports as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Within athletics, distance runners and trail runners are the closest to the public. After all, they share the start line, the course, and the finish line with amateur runners. Track athletes, on the other hand, are more accustomed to facing the crowd as if it were a stage. The stars of track and field live off performance, but they also enjoy adding something else: their own style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"powerkit_post_featured":[4,7,5,6,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-37349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37355,"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37349\/revisions\/37355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37349"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.footdistrict.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=37349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}