Olympics-Athletics-Adidas to keep pushing boundaries on shoe tech

FILE PHOTO: Adidas shoe "boost" is presented during the company's annual news conference in Herzogenaurach March 7, 2013. REUTERS/Michael Dalder/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Adidas will keep pushing new technology for running shoes despite controversy at the Olympics over new materials that could be giving some athletes unfair assistance to break world and national records, its chief executive said on Thursday.

"The regulations very clearly describes what kind of specification shoes have to fulfil," Chief Executive Kasper Rorsted told journalists at a financial results presentation.