‘I’m not really happy’: Gout Gout’s parents act to change his name

News.com.au - 09/12
Gout Gout might just be Australia’s biggest sporting star of the next decade, so we better get his name right.

Gout Gout might just be Australia’s biggest sporting star of the next decade, so we better get his name right.

After a record-breaking weekend, his parents have now revealed everyone’s been getting it wrong.

The 16-year-old, who turns 17 in late December, broke the Australian 200m record on Saturday at the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships.

His time of 20.04sec broke Peter Norman’s mark of 20.06sec set at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

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The 56-year-old record was the longest standing record in Australian athletics and one of the most iconic, given Norman stoo...
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