Australian sprinter Gout Gout has confirmed he’s aiming to make the subsequent two Olympic Video games in LA and Brisbane, as Noah Lyles factors out the ‘excellent storm’ of the areas
Gout Gout has confirmed he’s aiming to carry out on the 2032 Olympics in Brisbane, as American athlete Noah Lyles factors out the ‘excellent storm’ of the celebrated occasion coming to his house nation.
The Australian has been gorgeous athletics followers throughout the globe along with his performances lately, and he’s aiming to interrupt much more data in his street to his first Olympic Video games. The 17-year-old at the moment holds the document within the 200-metre dash, with a time of 20.04 seconds set in 2024 on the Australian All Faculties Athletics Championship.
This broke Usain Bolt’s earlier document in the identical race, which was a time of 20.13 seconds set again in 2003.
Gout’s meteoric rise in fame has caught the eye of American sprinter Noah Lyles, who’s a six-time World Champion, Olympic gold medallist, and third quickest man of all time with a private better of 19.31 seconds within the 100-metre dash.
Throughout an look on the Past the Information podcast with Lyles and American hurdler Grant Holloway, Gout opened up about his ambitions to create his personal legacy and be the subsequent athlete younger folks look as much as.
He stated: “I am making an attempt to be the subsequent Gout Gout and clearly being in comparison with Usain Bolt [is amazing]. Everybody desires to be the subsequent star, mainly, and Usain Bolt’s the perfect sprinter, the perfect athlete, so being in comparison with him is clearly nice.
“However then, I am Gout Gout, so I need to have the ability to make my title as massive as his title and clearly, folks youthful [than me] could be like ‘you are going to be the subsequent Gout Gout’ so yeah, I wish to be like that.”
Lyles went on to debate the subsequent few Olympic Video games, stating that the occasion being held in Australia in 2032 is the “excellent storm brewing” for Gout, as he questioned whether or not that was within the teenager’s thoughts proper now.
Gout stated: “That is the tip purpose for positive, so just about like operating there and clearly LA, which is in 2028, so your hometown or not, your private home nation.
“So, trying ahead to that and clearly I will be aiming to go there and World Championships this 12 months in Tokyo. I bought the qualifier clearly so I am aiming to be there as effectively and 2032 [Olympics] yeah, that is the place I am at for positive.”
The teenager sprinting sensation confirmed he’s planning to compete within the subsequent two Olympic Video games, possible towards Lyles himself – at the least in 2028, because the American joked that he “may be on his manner out” come the 2032 Video games.
By 2032, Gout will likely be turning 24 years previous and Lyles will likely be turning 35 – and Holloway added: “I will not be there – I will be within the stands”, provided that he will even be turning 35 years previous by the point the Brisbane Video games comes alongside.
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