The sprint sensation was pushed to new heights in the 200m final by an unlikely opponent at the Australian Athletics Championships
It didn’t look good for Gout Gout. He had started the 200m final at the Australian Athletics Championships relatively well, and was positioned just off the lead at the start of the straight.
But, there – who was that? The man wearing all black, two lanes on the inside. An athlete who appeared to match the global phenomenon step by step just when Gout was expected to pull away.
It wasn’t Lachlan Kennedy, the 100m champion who has beaten Gout twice over 200m but who pulled out of this event early on Sunday. It wasn’t Calab Law, the talented training mate of Kennedy, who was a step further back.
Gout had qualified for the final with a time almost half a second faster than anyone else. This was a field that – based on his own high standards – needed little beating.
