Beau
Beau needed to go faster. Usain Bolt had set the record too high, 9.58 seconds. That Jamaican superhuman remained unbeatable for years.
Beau wasn’t in the Olympics. But it didn’t matter. He had himself hooked up with the official Hermes timekeeper AI, in real time. It acted as a witness to any record-breaking attempts. Usually people used it for silly things like Guinness records of how many cucumbers they can stuff in their mouths or something, but Beau actually used it for the 100m race.
All he had to do was wear the tracking device on his ankle, and let the camera record him on the track.
It was dark at the track, nothing like the usual ‘light the place up like it’s midday’ thing you see during athletic events. He was the only one using the track so they only lit up the one spo
