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 places
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 distinguished occasion coming to his dwelling nation.
The Australian has been gorgeous athletics followers throughout the globe together 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 present 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 individuals look as much as.
He mentioned: “I am making an attempt to be the subsequent Gout Gout and clearly being in comparison with Usain Bolt [is amazing]. Everybody needs to be the subsequent star, principally, and Usain Bolt’s the very best sprinter, the very best athlete, so being in comparison with him is clearly nice.
“However then, I am Gout Gout, so I would like to have the ability to make my identify as large as his identify and clearly, individuals youthful [than me] can 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 mentioned: “That is the top aim for positive, so just about like working 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 go 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, possible towards Lyles himself – at the least in 2028, because the American joked that he “is likely to be on his means out” come the 2032 Video games.
By 2032, Gout will likely be turning 24 years outdated 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 outdated by the point the Brisbane Video games comes alongside.
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