The National Games

After the race, Dai Li had made things right once and for all. Just as he had said, the athletes had originally complained because they thought they were better than the members of the relay team, and assumed they would help the team perform better if they replaced them.

This was the way sports worked—you let your performance speak for you. It was normal for an athlete to find things unfair when he saw people who weren't better than him got more opportunities and exposure.

But in this competition, Kun Shen, Yueyang Zhu, and Tingshan Chen had all failed. It made all the people present realize that the members of the relay team weren't easily bullied, and that they were all excellent athletes who were better than the top athletes on the track and field team.