Not toxic, just informed. When people follow a sport closely ("passionately") they're more likely to be offended by and call out bullshit. The shoes provide a significant mechanical advantage that most consider unfair. Others claim they're just shoes, but then you might as well claim that rollerblades are shoes.
This comes on the heels of US anti doping handing a 4 year ban to the coach of Nike's elite running team. People who follow that side of the sport have little faith that athletics (or cycling, or any other sport) is any cleaner now than in past decades, which is to say, every successful endurance athlete is on some kind of gear.
Informed? Did you see the guy with a full on explanation on how basic physics work got shat on by people who claim the shoe 'rebound 2 or 3 times higher than other shoes'. You literally can't communicate with toxic people like that.
All top level athletes are on gear. Modern sports live off of constant feats of wonder and congested schedules. Neither of which are sustainable without performance enhancement. However when all of them are on, you could still say that the winner/record breaker did it fair and square.
This comes on the heels of US anti doping handing a 4 year ban to the coach of Nike's elite running team. People who follow that side of the sport have little faith that athletics (or cycling, or any other sport) is any cleaner now than in past decades, which is to say, every successful endurance athlete is on some kind of gear.