For God's sake, no pictures of the shoes in that article, just a link to a long ass video where she allegedly holds them up. Im not watching a 20 minute video to see shoes.
Those look like pricey converse knock-offs, which implies the organisers are operating under a different definition of "sport shoes" than the rest of us...
At least the Daily Fail has pictures - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12908497/Chess-kaza...