Gout Gout had ice cold response over 'next Usain Bolt' status

Australian sprint prima Gout Gout gave an crystal acold effect for Noah Lyles erstwhile helium was questioned astir the ‘next Usain Bolt’ status.

Gout broke onto the country successful 2020 and has been breaking records crossed a fig of property brackets.

Last December helium acceptable the Oceanian elder grounds for the fastest 200m race, clocking 20.04 seconds, beating Peter Norman’s grounds of 20.06 seconds, which had stood since 1968.

The 17-year-old past bushed his ain grounds with a tally of 20.02 seconds successful the Czech Republic past period and helium has Usain’s Bolt’s 200m grounds successful his sights.

Legendary runner Bolt clocked successful astatine 19.93 seconds successful the 200m successful 2004, and Gout volition anticipation to trump that astatine the Monaco Diamond League connected Friday (11 July).

Gout Gout ran a sub-10s 100m earlier this twelvemonth (Credit:Getty)

And speaking connected Beyond The Records Podcast with Noah Lyles earlier successful the year, Gout admitted it’s ‘surreal’ that he’s already being considered the adjacent icon successful the athletics world.

When asked connected being a relation exemplary to young kids, existent and aboriginal professionals, Gout said: “[It's] Crazy to deliberation about. Because I was erstwhile that kid trying to beryllium the adjacent Noah Lyles, trying to beryllium Usain Bolt, trying to beryllium the adjacent icon and maine being the adjacent icon is decidedly surreal. It’s brainsick for sure.”

Setting the barroom precocious for Australia

And erstwhile pressed connected being a trailblazer successful the aforesaid vein arsenic Lyles and Bolt, Gout went connected to add.

“Yeah I decidedly deliberation astir that. For me, I’ve got to acceptable the barroom highly precocious for the remainder of Australia due to the fact that if I tin acceptable that high, it tin amusement the remainder of Australia that idiosyncratic similar maine tin really bash it,” helium added.

Gout volition anticipation to tally a ineligible sub-19.93 200m successful Monaco contiguous having antecedently tally a sub-10 2nd 100m, but the two 9.99s runs were some deemed illegal owed to assistance from precocious tailwinds.

Illegal sub-10s tally recorded this year

Gout tally a 9.99 2nd 100m successful Perth earlier successful this twelvemonth with a 3.5m/s tailwind, and followed that up with different 9.99 successful the final, albeit with the assistance of a 2.6m/s tailwind.

A upwind speechmaking of 2.0m/s oregon nether is needed for a moving clip to beryllium declared legal.

“Sometimes it's frustrating but you can't power what you can't control,” Gout said after the last contention successful Perth earlier this year.

“The upwind is evidently the happening you can't control. You've conscionable got to larn to tally with it oregon against it.”