Meet Gout Gout, the Australian sprinter drawing comparisons to Usain Bolt

There may be no sport older than sprinting. And still, there's something singularly intoxicating about speed , about watching the fastest humans on the planet make like Usain Bolt and thunder down the straightaway, all the more so when they've navigated a circuitous path to get there. So, remember the name (and how could you not) "Gout Gout." He's an 18-year-old Australian. When he's not watching his beloved anime or taking photos on his Kodak camera, he's running – and inevitably winning – races in roughly the time it takes to spit out this sentence. When the 2028 Olympics arrive in Los Angeles in barely two years time, Gout Gout could bolt bolt to a medal. Fix your eyes on lane six, the runner in the maroon shirt… Sixteen months ago in the equivalent of the Australian high school championships, Gout Gout, then an 11th grader, did this… COMMENTATOR: And now we really start to open him up so let the legs loose and let the kid run… One imagines a car, versus a fleet of bikes, legs pumping like supercharged pistons. COMMENTATOR: He is Gout of this world. That is not human Gout turned in a time of 20.04 seconds in the 200-meter dash, clocking the fastest time in Australian history, breaking a mark set by another runner at — get this — the 1968 Olympics. Gout's time in the 200 also broke the world age-group record set in 2003 by Usain Bolt, the Jamaican eight-time gold medallist, considered the sport's greatest-ever. …