Dash legend Usain Bolt has urged rising Australian star Gout Gout to not neglect observe and subject and discover a good assist community to maintain him centered on his profession because the highlight and distractions intensify.
Gout, 18, retained the 200m title on the Australian Athletics Championships on 12 April in a time of 19.67 seconds, beating USA sprinter Erriyon Knighton’s world under-20 report (19.69) and bettering Bolt’s time of 19.93 from 2004 – the Jamaican’s quickest time as an adolescent.
Gout, who additionally claimed the under-20 100m nationwide title, went below the 20-second mark ultimately season’s championships with a wind-assisted 19.84 and beforehand set the quickest time by a 16-year-old over 200m when he ran 20.04 in 2024.
Providing recommendation to Gout, who he has beforehand stated “appears to be like like younger me”, Jamaican eight-time Olympic champion Bolt advised CNN: “At that younger age, as a result of I used to be there, you begin getting put left and proper and you then neglect observe and subject.
“Hopefully he has the fitting set of individuals to information him and preserve him centered on observe and subject as a result of the remainder of the stuff will all the time be there.
“However in the event you mess up on observe and subject, then all of it goes away.”
Gout is ready to make his Diamond League debut within the 200m in Oslo on 10 June however has indicated he’ll skip the Commonwealth Video games in Glasgow to give attention to the World Underneath-20 Championships in Oregon in August.
