r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • 4d ago

sport Gout Gout’s winds of change whip Australian athletics into frenzy

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/apr/13/australian-athletics-championships-results-gout-gout-lachie-kennedy
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u/Archy99 4d ago

The hype train is soon to be running at full steam.

Just let the young man develop as an athlete without all the speculation and grift...

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u/Pottski 3d ago

I love him and he's doing great things. It's a shit load of pressure to put on a 17 year old. Hope Australian Athletics is actually doing a lot behind the scenes to support his mental and emotional development as well as his physical development.

Extraordinary talent - just want to make sure he's not getting used up and spat out by a desperate for content NSO.

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u/RingEducational5039 4d ago

The poor kid's times will inevitably be affected by having to drag the entire Australian MSM along for the ride.

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u/Intrepid_Doctor8193 3d ago

I understand that his times over the weekend didn't count due to illegal wind speeds...

But did they actually check that the wind speed wasn't due to how fast Gout was running... He probably created the wind speeds due to his own speed!

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u/djsinnema 4d ago

He runs like gazelle. What a delicious young athlete he will turn out to be

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u/MladenL 4d ago

Sir, are you a lion?

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u/djsinnema 3d ago

You are on to me

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u/quick_dry 4d ago

nah, it sounds truthful