Wow dude. Very in depth post and totally deserving of the love you're getting. There was a South African athlete by the name of Zola Budd Pieterse that would also only run barefoot and did pretty well if my memory serves.
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Indeed. And weirdly I was just having a discussion about her this evening - she did great until apparently kicking Mary Decker in the 1984 Olympics and then it wasn't so great afterwards. However that was nothing to do with her barefoot running :-)
I didn't know about that. Just checked out the Wikipedia article and apparently Decker later said that there was nothing deliberate about what happened.
Interesting story though and probably something I never would have know if not for Steemit.