Thomas was panicking.
As far as Thomas knew, most of the fastest NBA players ran the 100 meters in just over ten seconds.
Some said the fastest was "Mighty Mouse" Robinson, whose 100-meter time was 10.2 seconds.
Others said Iverson could run it in 10.13 seconds at his peak.
But no matter how fast an NBA player was, he wasn't a professional sprinter. No NBA player had ever broken the ten-second barrier.
And now his agent was saying Wang Yi could run it in 9.6 seconds?
Was he kidding?
If any random basketball player could break ten seconds, what was the point of having sprinters like them?
"Are you sure?"
Thomas asked his agent skeptically.
"I'll send you a video. See for yourself," his agent replied.
After ending the call, Thomas received a video on his phone.
He opened it and saw Wang Yi testing his 100-meter speed during a training session.
In the video, Wang Yi had indeed run a time of 9.65 seconds.
It was only a test timed with a phone's stopwatch, so there could well have been some error.
But the margin of error wouldn't be that large.
Thomas felt his heart skip a beat.
He had once run 9.59 seconds himself, but that had been an exceptional performance.
Normally, his time was around 9.65 seconds.
In other words, if the two of them raced now, it wasn't clear who would win.
"It's impossible for an Asian to run that fast. There's got to be something fishy about this. The video is fake!"
That was what Thomas blurted out after watching the video.
He'd raced against countless Asians over the years. He knew better than anyone how fast they were.
How could an Asian break 9.7 seconds?
He was so stunned that he could barely think