Australian sensation Gout Gout is already being hailed as the way forward for sprinting.
{The teenager} smashed the earlier 200 meter file for a 16-year-old with a time of 20.04 seconds in the course of the Australian colleges championships in December.
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It’s the second quickest effort over the gap by anyone underneath 18 — Erriyon Knighton posted 19.84 seconds as a 17-year-old in 2021.
Gout, who turned 17 simply earlier than the New 12 months, has already damaged Peter Norman’s Australian 200m file from when he gained silver on the 1968 Olympics.
4-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson is aware of a factor or two in regards to the sport and is launching the upstart Grand Slam Monitor League in 2025 with $12.6 million in prize cash.
He spoke to talkSPORT on the Tremendous Bowl and revealed that followers ought to pump the brakes on the Gout hype practice.
“There have been so many phenoms which have come up at 15, 16 years previous and did not get to finally be better of all time or a gold medalist as a result of it is a very tough sport,” he mentioned.
“I am all the time hesitant in speaking about him as a result of all people’s speaking about him proper now. I am hesitant to place extra strain on him. , that is undue.
“Let him simply go on the market and hold having enjoyable and develop quietly. And that is the place he can have his greatest probability.
“He is in comparison with Usain Bolt so much. , lots of people do not know this — Usain Bolt was within the 2004 Olympics. Did not win, did not make the ultimate.
“However finally he went by way of the Olympics. He did OK, proper? He finally ended up being the best of all time, full cease, bar none. He is the best.
“It is a journey. So you do not wish to put an excessive amount of strain on this younger child, however he is an outstanding expertise. I might wish to see him simply proceed to have the ability to quietly and slowly become this as a result of it is a very tough sport.”
Gout has additionally clocked 10.04 seconds within the 100 meters, main many to anoint him as Jamaican legend Bolt’s inheritor obvious.
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The GOAT has even admitted that the newcomer ‘appears like me on the identical age.’
Athletics Australia president Jane Flemming says she’s going to try to guard the younger athlete.
“You may think about in the meanwhile he’ll have each sporting code, each agent, each industrial entity, they’re going to all be chasing him and he hasn’t even completed 12 months 11,” the Commonwealth Video games gold medalist instructed 2GB’s Extensive World of Sports activities.
“A part of our accountability as an organisation is to verify the younger man will get to his 30’s in good bodily and psychological form so we have to attempt to mood it. Be certain that he will get again to highschool, hangs out along with his mates, has a superb time with all of it, whereas nonetheless progressing him on the best way by way of.
“It is a lengthy highway. Rightly so he’ll in all probability make subsequent 12 months’s world championships after which Olympic Video games and one other Olympics and perhaps one other Olympics after that.”
Gout’s father Bona just lately confirmed his son’s identify is Guot, and is pronounced ‘Gwot’.
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“His identify is Guot, it is alleged to be Guot,” he insisted. “Once I see folks referred to as him Gout Gout, I am not likely pleased for him.
“I do know that Gout Gout is a illness identify however I do not need my son to be referred to as a illness identify. It is one thing that is not acceptable.”
A translation error by the Sudanese authorities because the household migrated to Egypt is the explanation for the discrepancy, per Each day Mail Australia.
However Gout’s supervisor has oddly insisted the unique pronunciation is appropriate.
“Firstly, it’s Gout Gout,” James Templeton instructed SEN Radio. “Yeah, yeah, I do know there’s been a bit of debate, and I do know his dad made a couple of feedback, however Gout Gout is the way it’s gonna be.
“Categorically, it is Gout Gout. , the factor you hope to keep away from in your ankle. That is the way it’s pronounced.”