A little shocked at his dismal performances. My take is this...His training away was not as intense as they claimed (done for the cameras) so he could be undertrained or his training has been very intense and his muscles have not yet recovered from it and synced with his natural speed of contraction. He may be in a healing phase.<div>
</div><div>Helping my nephew increase his jump I had him work with heavy weights for 3 weeks - just pure heavy lifting and weighted jumps. He never lifted as heavy or intense as this. I assured him he would increase his vertical jump by increasing his strength, since he was lacking much strength. After about 3 weeks, I told him to just play basketball and light stretches for the week before testing. Guess what? He jumped 3 inches less than usual and was very upset with me. I told him, his body probably has still not recovered. Gave another week, no training, just playing ball, stretching. We tested - He jumped 3 inches more than ever.</div><div>
</div><div>In Lemaitre's case,simply, it could be his body, still relatively young, was not used to very heavy training which it seems he was doing on his trip to Japan and Florida. Hopefully this is the case, or we may have another Shirvo on our hands. I pray not.</div>