The Fast Twitch

Part One of the Soigneur Series. Kaley Kinin and Tom DeVere may be figments of Mikhail's imagination. The Tokyo Olympics are rescheduled due to the pandemic, and the strict lockdown protocols seem to be costing some athletes more if they are not on the "right team". The Courts for Arbitration of Sports have had many cases pass through the European system, and its track athletics, female sprinting, a recluse of a coach, and the speed principle put on trial. These anomalies seem to repeat in the history of dominance in a particular event. The story is told from an interrogation into the understanding of what performance looks like periodically, and this may entice followers of sports medicine to marvel at the steps that have gone forward, but also the 'speed on trial' that will be up for discussion whenever a threat is made on the records and the legitimacy of those performances.

Will Kaley Kinin get to race in Tokyo? Well, that depends on her three missed whereabouts and the complexities of the corona-pandemic delayed Olympic Games.

The soigneur is the unsung hero behind the success of a team or individual, and with Tom unable to be questioned at the arbitration trial, the reader can decide where they fit when it comes to the exculpatory evidence against Kaley Kinin.