Why him Again

After changing his way of running, Ford improved greatly. It was easy now for him to get within 20 seconds. In terms of results, he seemed to become the 200m champion of World Championship that he had once been.

Of course, training and competition were two different things. In official competitions, especially international games, it was regarded as a stable performance if an athlete could perform at 80% of his training level.

It also verified Dai Li's speculation that the reason Shawn Ford couldn't run fast wasn't because he didn't have talent or he didn't work hard enough, but because he had problems with his way of running.

All of Ford's previous coaches tried to make up for his defect of leg length discrepancy with skills, but the result was totally opposite. Ford didn't become faster for this. On the contrary, he became slower.