«Who doesn’t want to be Usain Bolt?»
«Who doesn’t want to be Usain Bolt? To be compared to Usain Bolt, to be compared to the best sprinter of all time is fantastic», said Gout Gout before the meeting in Ostrava.
Tokyo World Athletics Championships: the Gout Gout phenomenon will feel the spotlight on his figure
Sports writing (EFE).- “The new Usain Bolt.” That’s the moniker that young Australian Gout Gout, at 17 years old, can’t stop hearing, and who will feel the weight of the spotlight on his figure in the 200-meter race, where he will compete against stars like Noah Lyles and Letsile Tebogo after achieving a spectacular time of 20.02 last June, which improves the Jamaican’s records at his age.
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Gout Gout is a prodigy. He is proving it in every competition. Despite his youth, he does not shrink from his rivals and in Tokyo, with an Olympic Stadium that is expected to be overflowing in the afternoon sessions, he hopes to endorse the progression he is having.
His daring and confidence were clear last June 24 in Ostrava (Czech Republic), in his first foray into the professional circuit. He defeated Cuban Reynier Mena, who arrived at the event after winning the Diamond League meetings in Oslo and Stockholm, and adorned his triumph with a time of 20.02 which was a new Oceania record.
Gout Gout lowered by two hundredths the oceanic record that he himself established in December 2024 when he ran in Brisbane in 20.04 seconds, a mark that allowed him to improve the records that the ‘legend’ Usain Bolt signed at the age of 16.
Gout, the third of seven siblings, was born in Ipswich (Queensland) in 2007, after his parents arrived from South Sudan. Athletics is becoming his passport to fame and his way of life. He has signed a millionaire contract with Adidas for more than six million dollars until 2032, the year in which the Games will be held in his country, in Brisbane, and which will surely be special for him.
Long before that, imminently, he will compete in his first absolute World Championships in Tokyo. The goal is to reach the 200-meter final and then “dream”.
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