I have seen the next Usain Bolt, and his name is Gout Gout

You know something crazy big is happening in athletics when running commentators everywhere are falling over themselves in the race to compare Gout Gout with Usain Bolt.

It’s clearly still early days, but part of the fun is knowing the utter fallibility in predicting the trajectory of any young athlete not yet old enough to vote.

What is evident from recent performances is that Gout already has the potential to surpass much of what Bolt achieved in his heyday. Gout being the 17-year-old sprinter from Brisbane, who over the last few months of the Australian summer track season has been smashing world age-group records while looking increasingly Bolt-like in his running manner, on and off the track.

In many ways, his potential would appear to be limitless, but one of the few things we know for sure at this point in his young life is that his name was not originally Gout Gout.