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Gout Gout smashes 20-second barrier, embraced by fierce rival as his legend grows
Another day, another stunning development in Australian sprinting: This time with Gout Gout winning the 200 metres in sub-20 seconds after Lachie Kennedy was disqualified.
- Michael Gleeson
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‘I’m back where I belong’: Peter Bol makes it through his lost years to break national record
Like Rohan Browning on Saturday night, Peter Bol stepped out of Gout Gout’s shadow as if to say, “Remember me?” in setting a new national record after years of drama.
- Michael Gleeson
Long live the king: Browning beats Kennedy, Lewis beats O’Brien in astonishing 100m finishes
Rohan Browning and Torrie Lewis won the men’s and women’s 100-metre finals in Perth by mere thousandths of seconds.
- Michael Gleeson
‘I might actually get this’: Kennedy becomes Australia’s second-fastest ever
Lachlan Kennedy ran the second-fastest time by an Australian ever – 10 seconds flat – a night after Gout Gout got the coveted single-figure time with a tailwind. This is some rivalry.
- Michael Gleeson
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Gout broke sprinting’s magical mark twice in one night, and it wasn’t even his best event
While not official times, Gout has now broken the 10-second barrier for the 100m. Who knows how fast he might run in his pet event; the 200m.
- Michael Gleeson
The ‘psychotic’ demons that drove Olympian into history books
Sprinter Bree Rizzo has revealed the high price she paid to achieve her Olympic dream, and how social media will be central to athletes reaching Brisbane 2032.
- Nick Wright
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‘It wouldn’t be fun if he just destroyed everyone’: Gout runs second on stunning night for Australian sprinting
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.
- Michael Gleeson
From Leongatha to Turin, Patterson hopes changes deliver more gold
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.
- Michael Gleeson
Australian Athletics boss Jane Flemming backs DNA testing for female athletes
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.
- Konrad Marshall
Athletics becomes first Olympic sport to introduce DNA sex testing for women
World Athletics will mandate genetics testing for athletes entering female competitions to “doggedly protect” the female track and field category.
- Tariq Panja
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