World athletics championships
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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
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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
‘Like he’s running downhill’: Freeman praises ‘extraordinary’ teen star
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.
- Michael Gleeson
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- Australians in sport
Australia takes record medal haul at world championships
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.
- Michael Gleeson
Teen becomes youngest ever to break four-minute mile
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.
- Michael Gleeson
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- Australians in sport
He’s 17 and the world’s fastest man over 200m this year, but we should no longer be shocked by Gout Gout
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?
- Michael Gleeson
Faster than Usain Bolt at the same age: The Ipswich schoolboy turned $6 million man
Meet Queensland teenager Gout Gout: A-grade student, prefect, Mario Kart fiend – and, at 17, the talk of global sprinting.
- Konrad Marshall
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