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 ‘good 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 ‘good storm’ of the celebrated occasion coming to his dwelling nation.
The Australian has been beautiful 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 presently holds the report 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 report 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 Data 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 mentioned: “I am attempting to be the subsequent Gout Gout and clearly being in comparison with Usain Bolt [is amazing]. Everybody needs to be the subsequent star, mainly, and Usain Bolt’s one of the best sprinter, one of the best 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 huge as his title and clearly, folks youthful [than me] can be like ‘you are going to be the subsequent Gout Gout’ so yeah, I need 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 “good storm brewing” for Gout, as he questioned whether or not that was within the teenager’s thoughts proper now.
Gout mentioned: “That is the top purpose for positive, so just about like operating there and clearly LA, which is in 2028, so your hometown or not, your own home nation.
“So, trying ahead to that and clearly I will be aiming to move there and World Championships this yr in Tokyo. I bought the qualifier clearly so I am aiming to be there as properly 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, probably towards Lyles himself – not less than in 2028, because the American joked that he “is likely to be on his means out” come the 2032 Video games.
By 2032, Gout shall be turning 24 years outdated and Lyles shall be turning 35 – and Holloway added: “I will not be there – I will be within the stands”, on condition that he will even be turning 35 years outdated by the point the Brisbane Video games comes alongside.
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