Italian firm Mondo will supply a better performance than the one used at the COVID-delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics for this summer’s Paris Olympics with a custom purple track, which could be the fastest yet for athletes hunting the biggest prizes in sport.
Based in Alba, Mondo first made the track for the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
For Paris’ 13th Olympics, it has devised the Mondotrack EB, which will host 46 of the 48 athletic events of the Games at the Stade de France.
The biggest stars in athletics, such as reigning women’s world 100m champion Sha’Carri Richardson, will strive for Olympic glory on their surfaces.
“We have changed the design of the cells on the lower layer of the track compared to the one used in Tokyo,” Maurizio Stroppiana, vice president of Mondo’s sports division and son of one of the two founders, told AFP.
“That reduces the energy loss for athletes and sends it back up to them at the best possible point of their movement.”
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/Max89.7FM/max.com.gh/Michael Mensah Martey/
