The hottest property in Australian athletics,Gout Gout has agreed to run in the nation’s richest foot race,a decision expected to create unseen hype for the event in its 143rd year.
Eighteen-year-old Cam Myers has broken the world under-20 mile record.
Noah Lyles sat opposite Gout Gout as the 17-year-old schoolboy from Queensland quietly but unabashedly told the American star he planned to beat him … this year.
He’s about to start his final year of high school and is already pocketing millions from one of the world’s sportswear giants in an eye-popping deal that will take him all the way to his home Olympics.