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If the shoe fits…go for the glory! World’s largest shoe collection opens winter sports footwear exhibit just in time for 2010 Winter Games.

Toronto, ON’s Bata Shoe Museum is ‘Bound for Glory,’ looks at cutting-edge and high-tech innovations for ice, snow and track.

by Mark Stevens 26 March 2009

Fear and painfully frozen feet: that’s pretty much all I recall about my first time at the top of a ski hill. But it all came back clearly when I heard that the popular Bata Shoe Museum in downtown Toronto, ON was mounting “Bound for Glory,” a year-long tribute to cutting-edge winter sports footwear that opened in early March.
 
The three-section display will spotlight the technology that’s helped elite athletes to excel on ice, snow and track. Check out the skates worn by past Olympians, such as Canadian figure skaters David Pelletier and Jamie Salé, and hockey star Jennifer Botterill, as well as the foot-fetishist’s dream shoes: the black-leather-and-steel-spike concoctions worn by 1940s skeleton-racers (even more uncomfortable than my first ski boots). Then test your own footwork in an interactive zone where you can (virtually) hit the slopes via Wii technology—without the frozen feet.
 
And après-ski? Take in some of the other quirky stuff on display in the world’s largest shoe collection: Madonna’s shoe or John Lennon’s boot or Napoleon’s sock or Lord Nelson’s shoe buckle, to name just a few.
 
“Bound for Glory–Cutting Edge Winter Sports Footwear” runs until March 21, 2010.
 

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