errm, have you read the article that was linked to?
concluding: “In this case, the quality of the evidence is poor, the size of the effect is often miniscule and it certainly doesn’t apply to the population at large who are buying these products.
“Basically, when you look at the evidence in the general population, it does not say that exercise is improved [or that] performance is improved by carbohydrate drinks.”
and
“The evidence does not stack up and the quality of the evidence does not allow us to say these do improve in performance or recovery and should be used as a product widely.”
and
Puma declined to provide his research team with any studies to prove that their shoes can deliver on those claims.
It looks like ‘probably, no’ to me?