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Topics: Athletics, Usain Bolt, Gout Gout
Ryan Smart
Topics: Athletics, Usain Bolt, Gout Gout
Usain Bolt sent a warning to Gout Gout after the Australian sprint sensation broke one of his long-standing records earlier this year.
The 16-year-old rose to prominence earlier this year following a number of impressive victories at 100 and 200 metres, and he now holds a number of Australian under-16 records.
At the U20 World Championships in September, Gout ran the 200 metres in a time of 20.60 seconds - which was 0.01 seconds faster than Bolt's best time when he competed in the same race back in 2002.
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When told about the comparisons between himself and Bolt by Australian media in August, Gout said: "It's pretty cool because Usain Bolt is arguably the greatest athlete of all time and just being compared to him is a great feeling.
"Obviously I'm Gout Gout, so I'm trying to make a name for myself. If I can get to the level he was that would be a great achievement."
Speaking on the High Performance Podcast with Jake Humphrey earlier this week, Bolt opened up on his younger days as a sprinter before he took the athletics world by storm - and indirectly gave Gout a significant piece of advice.
He said: "When I started out, I didn't understand the concept of 'being great' because I was young.
"I was 15 when I won the world juniors, I was really young and I was really talented so I didn't have to work as hard as it was just talent, as I was winning and winning.
"I remember when I got to the professional level, and I felt like it was just going to be easy.
"And I got to the stage where I would go to meets and I would lose. And I was like, 'This is strange, this is new'. So it took me a while to understand."