Bid to lure Gout Gout to take part in iconic football event

One of the world's astir unsocial sports has made a bold bid to lure Gout Gout to instrumentality portion successful its legendary 'Grand Final Sprint'.

The event, archetypal held backmost successful 1979, is simply a 100m sprint betwixt AFL (Australian Football League) players not competing successful the Grand Final during the showpiece fractional clip event.

One subordinate is usually nominated from each team, but CODE Sports reports that the AFL is keen to spot the 17-year-old instrumentality portion successful this year’s sprint. Gout is adjacent successful enactment astatine the Monaco Diamond League connected Friday (11 July), wherever he’ll vie successful an U23 200m race.

The Australian runner has drawn comparisons to legendary sprinter Usain Bolt owing to his velocity and physique, which Bolt himself acknowledges.

On the comparisons, Gout past period said: “It decidedly feels great, I’ve heard that a batch of sprinters tally present truly good. I cognize Usain Bolt ran present 9 times, truthful the lawsuit intelligibly has a large tradition.

“Who doesn’t privation to beryllium Usain Bolt? Being compared to Usain Bolt feels large but I would similar to enactment my property successful the upcoming story.”

This year’s Grand Final takes spot connected 27 September, soon aft Gout volition anticipation to tally successful the Athletics World Championship successful Tokyo, wherever helium is expected to partake successful the 100m event, truthful the timings could work.

Gout Gout is expected to beryllium an Olympic champion astatine immoderate constituent successful his career. (Image: Getty)

AFL won't remark connected Gout speculation

AFL spokesperson Jay Allen refused to remark straight connected whether Gout has been approached to instrumentality portion successful the Grand Final Sprint, but did admit they are ever looking for ways to drum up involvement successful the event.

“The Grand Final Sprint is simply a favourite contented of the time and we are ever looking astatine ways to amplify the contention and the nationalist involvement successful it,” Allen said.

“We volition marque immoderate announcements person to the Toyota AFL Grand Final.”

Collingwood presently pb the AFL with 56 points from the opening 16 matches, winning 14 and drafting two.

Brisbane are presently 2nd with 46 points, portion Adelaide, Geelong and Hawthorn each person 44 points each.

Brisbane won past year’s AFL Grand Final, beating Sydney by 120 points to 60 and volition beryllium retired to support their crown this year.

Brisbane observe their 2024 Grand Final triumph implicit Sydney / Photo by Daniel Pockett/AFL Photos/Getty Images

Gout retired to emulate Bolt

Gout broke onto the country astatine a conscionable successful 2020 and past December broke Peter Norman’s 200m grounds of 20.06 seconds, a grounds that had stood since 1968.

Gout narrowly edged Norman’s grounds astatine the Australian All Schools Championship, completing the 200m successful 20.04 seconds.

He past broke the aforesaid grounds past period by moving the 200m successful 20.02 seconds successful the Czech Republic past month.

Gout is yet to grounds a ineligible clip nether 20 seconds, which Bolt recorded soon earlier his 18th day with a 19.93 successful Bermuda.