The legend of the Australian sprinter grows with another bladder victory in the national championships; Lachlan Kennedy is disqualified.
Perth: That gout won the gout would not win was not the question in the end, even if he is a boy and was running against men. He has already accumulated concerns that the age of his compatriots was a problem, since neither the boy nor man can combine it again over 200 meters again.
The Gout Gout legend has grown to another level.Credit: Getty images
His most acute rivals – Lacie Kennedy and Calab Law – both lacked from the final, who retired and Kennedy disqualified incredibly after a second false beginning in the 200 meters for the meeting. So the question on this hot afternoon at the national championships was only if Gout could break 20 seconds – and in 19.84, even if with another illegal tail wind (+2.2 m) behind.
He marked the second time in days when he had broken the coveted 20 seconds barrier, just to be denied by time.
This is the stage that has already reached as an athlete, he is competing against himself more than the field. He is chasing records as much as the titles.
In perfect condition in Perth (31 degrees), he ran 20.21 for the heat – practically jogging of the last 60 meters once he realized that he had safeguarded a place in the final.
As a sixteen year old at the school championships in Queensland in December, He beat Peter Norman’s 200 meters record This had remained from the Mexico Olympics in 1968.
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