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Gout Gout tin unrecorded up to the Usain Bolt comparisons erstwhile helium races successful the U23s 200m contention astatine the Monaco Diamond League.
The teenage runner changeable to prominence successful 2020 and past December broke Australian runner Peter Norman’s grounds of 20.06 seconds successful the 200 metre sprint; a grounds that had stood since 1968.
Gout ran the 200m successful 20.04 seconds astatine the Australian All Schools Championship past December, and past managed to bash truthful successful 20.02 seconds successful Czech Republic past period successful his European debut.
However, helium inactive has immoderate mode to spell to bushed Usain Bolt’s clip of of 19.93 seconds helium acceptable successful 2004, which inactive stands arsenic the nether 20s satellite record. Gout’s 20.02 seconds grounds bushed Bolt’s age-16 champion and is the Oceanian elder grounds and it’ll instrumentality immoderate doing to shave 0.09 seconds disconnected that return.
19.93 seconds, then, is the people for Gout connected Friday and thing quicker with a ineligible upwind volition spot him sprint into the aforesaid territory that Bolt occupied astatine 17. That said, with Monaco’s traditionally fast, sea-level track, Gout should consciousness somewhat assured astir making up the clip to constitute his sanction into the past books.
Usain Bolt won golden successful 2 Olympics events. Image: Getty
Gout's amerciable 100m times
Gout volition anticipation to bash truthful legally, too, having doubly tally sub-10 2nd 100m races earlier this year.
Gout recorded times of 9.99 seconds successful some races, but some were aided with amerciable tailwinds.
The day preliminary saw Gout helped by a tailwind of 3.5m/s, portion helium recorded a 2nd 9.99s tally successful the last of the Australian Athletics Championships, but did truthful with 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.”
The 17-year-old’s banal has been rising quickly, and he’s drawn understandable comparisons with Bolt successful the past.
A batch to bash to unrecorded up to those Usain Bolt comparisons (MICHAL CIZEK/AFP via Getty Images)
Shock AFL determination connected the cards?
In addition, rumours this week suggest that the AFL person approached Gout astir perchance moving successful the Grand Final Sprint aboriginal this year.
The event, which started successful 1979, takes spot during fractional clip of the Grand Final, AFL’s showpiece.
While the AFL haven’t commented straight connected whether Gout has been approached, they did admit they are looking for ways to drum up involvement successful the Grand Final Sprint.
