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Usain Bolt issues warning to teen sensation Gout Gout ahead of world championships
The sprinting legend has offered some advice to the Aussie ahead of his world championships debut next week.
Ben Talintyre
September 12, 2025 – 12:15AM
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Aussie sprinter Gout Gout drops some huge goals in his career
The teenage sensation is aiming to replicate Usain Bolt and has his eyes on the LA Olympics in 2028.
Usain Bolt has warned sprint sensation Gout Gout that he could be in for a rude awakening as he prepares to make his world championships debut next week.
Gout is the rising star of athletics, already breaking the 10-second barrier twice in his young career – although both runs were wind-assisted and therefore not official times.
And at just 17, he has the world’s attention and has been continued to be compared to Jamaican sprint king Bolt.
Such is his raw, untapped ability that many Aussies are already pencilling him in for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics gold.
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But Bolt has warned Gout and his army of Aussie fans not to get ahead of themselves, stating the transition from juniors to seniors is incredibly difficult.
“If he continues on this track, it’s going to be good, but it’s all about getting everything right. I mean, it’s never just easy,” Bolt said in Tokyo on Thursday.
“It’s always easier when you’re younger because I was there, I used to do great things when I was young, but the transition to senior from junior is always tougher.
“It’s all about if you get the right coach, the right people around you, if you’re focused enough, so there will be a lot of factors to determine if he’s going to be great, and if he’s going to continue on the same trajectory to a championship or Olympics.”
Usain Bolt has warned Gout Gout that it is about to get a whole lot harder. Image: Getty
Despite also setting age group records as a youngster, Bolt himself didn’t really hit his stride at the senior level until he was 22, when he broke the 100m world record twice and won the sprint double at the Beijing Olympics.
In 2017, Bolt called time on his illustrious career, with eight Olympic and 11 world championship gold medals in his trophy cabinet.
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And Bolt, who said he could have run 9.42 in the carbon-plated “super-spikes” today’s sprinters were using, says he is excited to see track events booming, thanks to modern-day stars such as Gout.
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“He’s very talented, with the times he’s running now, and he’s really been doing well,” he continued.
“That’s something that you love to see because you want athletes to do well. The more athletes do well, the bigger the sport is, and I’m always a supporter of track and field getting bigger and doing bigger things.”
Gout is set to run in the 200m event at the world championships in Tokyo on September 19.
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