A sellout crowd 10,000-strong headed to the Maurie Plant Meet to watch dominant junior Gout Gout run his first men’s 200-metre race. The spectacle didn’t disappoint.
Eleanor Patterson has moved to live in Italy,and changed her coach and her run-up. But she’s still winning medals. She just wants more of them to gleam gold.
Noting her own experiences and those of athletes decades before her,Flemming says the issues of gender in female sport might be complex,but they are not new.
World Athletics will mandate genetics testing for athletes entering female competitions to “doggedly protect” the female track and field category.
Cathy Freeman loves what she sees of global sprint sensation Gout Gout,who has driven a surge in interest for Saturday night’s Maurie Plant Meet.
Four medals on the final day,including gold and silver in the high jump,have delivered Australia not only its biggest world indoor championships haul but almost doubled its previous highest medal tally.
A 15-year-old schoolboy from New Zealand has become the youngest person ever to break the four-minute mile – and he’s on his way to compete against Australia’s teenage prodigy.
If Gout Gout can do this now at the age of 17,what will he be able to do when he is not carrying his play lunch to school in Tupperware and sitting through a double period of maths?
Meet Queensland teenager Gout Gout:A-grade student,prefect,Mario Kart fiend – and,at 17,the talk of global sprinting.
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