Twice as many people as last year came just to see the heats. They came to see one person – the man whose name they chanted as he stood on the blocks. This was the day Gout Gout came to the Stawell Gift.
Another day,another stunning development in Australian sprinting:This time with Gout Gout winning the 200 metres in sub-20 seconds after Lachie Kennedy was disqualified.
Like Rohan Browning on Saturday night,Peter Bol stepped out of Gout Gout’s shadow as if to say,“Remember me?” in setting a new national record after years of drama.
Rohan Browning and Torrie Lewis won the men’s and women’s 100-metre finals in Perth by mere thousandths of seconds.
Lachlan Kennedy ran the second-fastest time by an Australian ever – 10 seconds flat – a night after Gout Gout got the coveted single-figure time with a tailwind. This is some rivalry.
While not official times,Gout has now broken the 10-second barrier for the 100m. Who knows how fast he might run in his pet event;the 200m.
Sprinter Bree Rizzo has revealed the high price she paid to achieve her Olympic dream,and how social media will be central to athletes reaching Brisbane 2032.
A sellout crowd 10,000-strong headed to the Maurie Plant Meet to watch dominant junior Gout Gout run his first men’s 200-metre race. The spectacle didn’t disappoint.
Eleanor Patterson has moved to live in Italy,and changed her coach and her run-up. But she’s still winning medals. She just wants more of them to gleam gold.
Noting her own experiences and those of athletes decades before her,Flemming says the issues of gender in female sport might be complex,but they are not new.