March 27, 2025 • 26 mins
Georgie is away doing something top secret and AMAZING, so this week we have 3AW's Laura Spurway joining Abbey to talk all things Gout Gout, the 17 year old lining up to be Australia's greatest ever athlete.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here at Two Good Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:06):
There were innerie people. This land was never seated, always
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Speaker 4 (00:15):
Hello and welcome to two Good Sports and sports news
told differently. I'm maybe Jelly, and the reason that I'm
doing the lead in is we don't have a Georgie Tunney.
She is off doing the Amazing Race, just a little
run around the planet. But we're joined by the wonderful
three aw football presenter a new title, Laura Spurway.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Welcome Abby Jelly. It's good to be here again.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And imagine my shock when I heard that Georgie Tunny
might be doing well at the Amazing Race.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well you mentioned that.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I did say to George and like, come on, give
us a little pre record so we can put it
in for the Good Sport. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Where are you?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I miss so terribly, But let's have a listen. This
is Georgie's secret message for listeners.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, well, well, hi there, dear listeners. Georgie Tunny reporting
from an undisclosed location. I'm currently doing something rather amazing.
I can't tell you where I am. I can't tell
you what I've been doing. I can tell you though
of particular interest for all of our diehard listeners, and
tell me that I've made friends with a dolphin. I've
done it, guys, I've done an olympian and myself, Bronte Campbell,
(01:17):
we are friends?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
How do we get that way? Can't reveal too much.
I hope you are all fantastic. Jell me.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I miss your gorgeous face, and.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Do not fretch. I'll be back as soon as possible.
Letting you know every single thought that has ever entered
my head?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Miss you?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Why did that feel like an episode of Gossip Girl?
Like was she going to sign off with xex?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So I'm intrigued.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Well, the good thing is you can pencil in Bronchie
Campbell as a future guest.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
That's going to be good.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
But the thing, the smoky thing about George is she's
an elite swimmer. She's actually a great swimmer, but cannot
reverse parallel to save a life. Her car looks like
it's bashed up, so if there's anything that requires her
to drag and say this, she can barely ride a bike.
So the fact that they're doing so well good on it,
I'm proud of her. It's her and a partner Rob,
as you may know from os Idol or Robert Millsey Mills.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So while we.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Miss her, we are pushing on and we'll just wait
and see when she returns.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It's an unknown. It's an unknown, but I'm reading for.
When I found out that she was doing it, I thought, oh,
she's going to kill this. The two of them together
are going to kill this.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You say that.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
She called me and she was like, so it occurred
to me that, like, this is a race. She's like,
I just watched and they spend very little time walking.
There's this awkward shuffle they all have to do. Is
that part of what I have to do? And I'm like, babe,
it's in the title amazing race. You're probably going to
have to get some gusto steps up.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Run on camera at some point. Everyone's how do you reckon?
You would do running on camera or just being in
an amazing race?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I would never do it.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
It would bring out I need to be three hours
early for an airport without being an anxious mess. And
then on top of that, I'm the most competitive person
you've ever met, So.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You would do well?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Oh would paint me so poorly though, no one would
ever want to be my friend again.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I am that person that needs find my car every
day of the week. My basic navigational skills are horrendous,
so I feel I would be a liability. Well, in
good news, you and I don't have to do an
amazing anything, but we do today need to talk about
an amazing athlete.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Gout, gout.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It's two syllables that have taken over the Australian sporting landscape.
Never before, or in our generation, has there been an
athlete so promising over the sprint over the Glamour distances
of one hundred and two hundred meters. And this kid
is just seventeen and ahead of the Morrow Plant Meet
this weekend. We want to talk about why he could
(03:43):
reshape world sport that's coming up.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So, Laura, I've got a question for you.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Do we have an Australian athlete that has ever defined
a sport? So when I say this, I mean when
you think about basketball, you think about Jordan, When you
think about golf, you think about woods. I mean with
swimming it was Phelps that you've got Ali Simone Biles.
I mean, have I only said Americans to this point. Absolutely,
(04:23):
So you've also got to think about Ronaldo Messi. These
athletes that come along that are that good, they define
an entire genre. I tried to think of an Australian
athlete that we have, potentially Bradman. Yep, but that's not
a sport that's competed in the Americas. So have we
ever had an athlete of that caliber.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
It's a very big question, and I think the thing
is we have them domestically. Like you said, Bradman, Well,
cricket is a global sport, but it's almost like you
need to be on the radar in the US to
be that truly global name. And that's just the way
it works. With how much cut through American athletes have.
I mean, obviously we could talk about the Kathy Freemans
(05:04):
in terms of what they've meant to Australian athletics. But
on the world stage that was an amazing moment because
it was a home Olympics. But whether or not anyone
has that conversation about her globally as defining a sport,
I would say probably not, even though we would argue
that that was one of the greatest moments in Australian
sporting history.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But I think you need to.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Be attached to like a marquee event that is that
top event on the world stage and do well in it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And the one hundred meter sprint and the two hundred meters,
but the one hundred meters sprint is probably the top
event in the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And is the reason why I believe that Usain Bowles
is the greatest athlete we have ever seen. And when
I was looking back through his stats, the fact that
he went back to back to back over three Olympics
from two thousand and eight to twenty sixteen in both
the one hundred and two hundred meters still holds record
for both one hundred and two hundred meters in the
(06:00):
men's is the most phenomenal feat. And I've been lucky
enough to meet Usain Bolt. And I'm not sure did
you meet him when he was here in Australia doing press.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I did not meet him.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
When you see Usain Bolt in the flesh, you think, yeah,
I actually believe you're the fastest man on earth. He
is six foot four and just looks like he was
built better than everyone else. And then comes along this kid,
this Ipswich grammar going Queenslander who is only just seventeen
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and is being likened to the greatest of all time,
to the point where Bolt himself has gone, man, that
kid looks like me. He's the fastest ever Australian over
two hundred meters and in the last couple of weeks
has actually run under twenty seconds, which is mind boggling,
but it didn't count because it was wind assisted. But
we have a chance, and I'm putting it out there
(06:55):
to have someone that could be that good, that his
genre defining for the first time in Australian sporting history.
And I know that that's a lot of pressure to
put on seventeen year old shoulders, but the records are there.
He is the fastest sixteen year old ever, more than
Bolt ever, so running faster than Bolt at the same age.
(07:15):
And I bring out these comparisons because that's when this
kid Gout Gout went viral. Is that people basically put
a split screen online and showed you Sain Bolt and
gout Gout running and the comparisons followed.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So he actually appeared.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
His first ever podcast was with Noah Lyles, who's the
current world one hundred meters champion casually and the fastest
manner of one hundred meters in the world at the moment,
and then Grant Holloway, who won the one hundred and
ten meter hurdles at Paris. So he appeared on their
podcast Beyond the Records and talked about this comparison that's
been following him. I say, his whole life, it's a
very short life. He burst onto the scene in twenty thirteen,
(07:52):
and the Bolt comparisons followed.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
I mean exactly what you said. I'm trying to be
in the next gout Gout and obviously being Pethew's Bolt,
everyone wants to be the next star basically, and you
send both the best friend so with no best athlete,
so being compared to him, it's obviously great. But then
I'm got gout, so I want to be able to
make my name as big as his name, and obviously
(08:15):
everyone people younger would be like, you're you're going to
be next go gout tub, So yeah, I want to
be like that. We just came up of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Don't you love him?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I think he seems like such a lovely young man.
He clearly has good people around him because that is
a huge label to have at his age, and when
you already are in that stratgy where the man himself
knows who you are, saying Bolt knows who you are.
He is saying you look like me. Of course everyone
(08:48):
pays attention. And now they're following this kid and he
is racing in Melbourne, but people are watching. When he
was racing in Queensland, I mean the crowd there, it
was there, but it wasn't anything astronomical. People are watching
and it's just going to keep growing for him. I
think it's so hard when they're that young to be
able to say in seven years at twenty thirty two,
(09:10):
because I know they have their eyes on that this
is what he could do. It is a long way
between now and then, and it's such a grind, but
it is so exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
It is so exciting.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Well, they ask him in that podcast what are you
going to do? And in twenty thirty two in Brisbane
he's like, I imagine I'm going to like get it.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I'm going to get the whole.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Crowd to start seeing the national anthem is what he says, Like,
I'm going to run a lap, Everyone's going to start
singing Advance Australia Fair. There's going to be absolute pandemonium,
Like he's already painting the picture again talking to Noah
Lyles where he says in that podcast, I'm coming for
you like I am coming for you. And the reason
why he did actually get on that podcast is he
just signed a multi million dollar deal with addeddas Adidas
(09:56):
added as Potato Potato however you say it, seventeen and
signing a multi million dollar deal and this kid is
still at school.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yep, he's still at school.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
So he's having to try to coordinate his running times
around I don't know, lunch recess.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
He's a school prefect.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
He's a classic overachiever apparently also a straight A student.
How do we the Australian public best, I guess, nurture
this kid or take care.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I want to take care of him and make sure
he still loves it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I think the fact that he's at school is a
good thing.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The fact that he's living the life of a teenager,
of a seventeen year old who is going to school,
who has to sit in those lessons, who has to
do the crappy homework. He's around kids his age who
isn't just you know, at elite international destinations all the time,
with all the hot shots of the sport. I heard
something where someone said he needs to be racing with
(10:52):
kids his own age. He still needs to be around
those mean have you seen I have seen racing kids
his own age.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I have seen it. In any other context, it would
be bullying, Laura.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I know, like, if my child's coming second, I'm calling
and being like is this necessary at this point? Because
at the two undermeter bend, when he's already finished, I
feel like this is a little demoralizing. And again for context,
this is a now seventeen year old who is running
times that would have had him sixth at the Paris Games.
So non is making the men's final and he's point
(11:29):
zero five of a second off running fourth.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
The other thing is what I know sprinters, and this
is not gymnastics where they peak young sprinters are at
their best in their mid twenties. It happens to be
when this kid is going to be racing in Brisbane
and he happens to be a Brisbane native. The narrative
around it's almost so storybook that I feel like we
(11:52):
might stuff it up.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
See the thing.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Let's not make any sudden movements and just let him
be who he is. So he's still really really lean,
Like if you look at him when he runs, he
is so lean still. And someone like Usain Bolt, who
was very tall as well, had that kind of powerful
stature that you only get with the years of training
and as you develop into your body as a sprinter,
(12:16):
says she like she was a sprinter, was not do
not have the build of a spring. He's one hundred
and eighty centimeters, which is actually the same height as
Noel Arles we mentioned, a prolific two hundred meter runner
and the current men's one hundred meter champion from Paris.
So he's already at that height of grown men, Like
is he going to scale the heights of Usain Bolt?
(12:37):
Probably not to have that physique, but the comparisons in
their run. His starts are terrible, and I say terrible,
they're fantastic, but they're terrible by his own standards. And
then he almost seems the words of Kathy Freeman, he
looks like he shot out of a cannon with the
pace and the length of his strides that he hits
when he actually hits his full acceleration. So if he
(12:58):
can get his starts right, the sky's the limit for
this kid.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
But that's what I mean. There's room for improvement with
someone that young.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And if he does have this aspect of his race
that he needs to improve the starting, well, he's got
the time to do it, doesn't he. And he's got
the scope to do it because he is still that young,
so he's not reached his full potential. And he's got
this ripping coach behind him who has this personality awesome
Dinky dye queen took.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
A job at the didn't she take a job?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
She took a job at the school canteen, the uniform
shop because you need the uniform shop because you needed
to have a job in the school in order to coach.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So that's what she did. Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And she spotted this kid at under twelves and said
to him, I reckon, you can be something, And then
called James Templeton and said, I reckon, there's a guy
that you're going to need to manage here, and he said,
please tell me you're calling about gout gout.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yep. The kid's thirteen.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Like in my head, I'm like, what was I doing
at thirteen, probably trying to sneak into PG thirteen movies
at this stage of my life, like the pressure on this.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I just.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
I want him to keep loving it, because if we
zoom out to what's happening at the moment in Australian sport,
you've got a kid like Harlie Reid who's nineteen playing
in Perth under the immense pressure that comes from being
in a two team town and such a high draft
pick in Perth. The media are going to follow your
every move and it's a level of celebrity that unless
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you're from.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Perth you probably can't understand.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
That's all we have over there, okay, And everyone's talking
about how they manage him and how they care for him,
because it's just so much on his shoulders. He's nineteen.
This kid is seventeen and the world is aware of him.
How do we keep him loving sport and not feeling
the pressure of it all? But he just seems to
(14:49):
have the disposition to handle it.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I think it's about the people around him, and he
seems to have a good team around him, and he
seems to have a very humble family, hard.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Working family, one of seven, yes, lots.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Of siblings, but also parents who've worked really hard to
get him to a private school, like not a well
to do family fled a civil war in South Sudan
to come to Australia. That's the backstory there, so we're
not talking about people who've had everything handed to them,
have actually come from tragedy and he I think it
sounds like he's got the people around him to keep
(15:25):
him humble. I think he's in a sport where you
can shield them a little bit because they're not playing
a match week in week out, like Harlee Reid is
with AFL, where he's on TV every week, where there's
an audience that will scrutinize him every week.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
This is not what this sport is.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
So you can send them over to America, you can
train with the stars. That's all probably done quite privately.
We can't get in there, or you know, reporters can't
get in there, and then they go to these meets
and that's when you really get to see how they're going.
But they're not sort of week in week out, so
I feel like that helps a little bit. But maybe
I mean, for the first time we're seeing something like
(16:03):
the Murray plant meat and if you're saying the pardon
of the water, that's because it's never been broadcasted.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It's on free to wear this weekend and the ticket
sales have been crazy to see this kid.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
And we've got Bruce mcavany, Jason Richardson, I mean, you've
got Dave, Colbert, Tamson, Manu, like all of these names
that usually cover Olympic events are covering this meet and
it's going to be on primetime.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
So what it's going to do for athletics.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
And the other thing is I've listened to Patrick Johnson
talk about this kid, and of course he's the only
ever Australian to run sub ten seconds over the one
hundred meters, so he is the one that gout is
essentially chasing down pun intended. And he said, it's just
important that we make sure that this kid keeps enjoying
running and that he doesn't get poached by other sports
because he's like so often we have promising athletes. And
(16:50):
he was a football fan, is in the round ball
game growing up, and football is obviously so lucrative and
a global sport that it starts to attract them away
so early. He was like, keep him in track and
field and keep him happy is the key to his
persistence in this. But that's the other thing, like the
thought of having an Aussie in the one hundred meter
final blows my mind at a Games, and the thought
(17:13):
of it being into Brisbane Games, I don't know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
So bullish about it. It's so exciting.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
And again just to see track and field followed this way,
I can't remember an Australian athlete being this promising. Well,
we've always been the swimming nation, right, everyone always goes, oh, yeah,
there's always good swimmers in Australia, but track and field
at the moment, we've actually got some red hot I know,
she's amazing and I just sort of think, you know,
(17:41):
but traditionally, obviously we haven't been churning them out to
the levels that we have with swimming, which you know
very clearly for such a small country by sea. We
are by sea, and so this is why when you
get someone of this caliber in Australia in this event,
which is so hard to crack, this is why you
(18:02):
get this level of attention because we just don't have
for whatever reason, that's just not what we're producing most
of the time. One hundred meter metal contenders, and you
know he says that's what he wants and that he
will be a medal contender. His coach believes it, his
manager believes it. There's sprinters and it's why I love it.
(18:24):
They can have this bravado about them, like there's something
of course like Sprint on Netflix, Who've spoken about in
this podcast before.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
And they have this swagger right and this belief of
I'm the greatest.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Just asked me.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And the wonderful thing about Gout is that he has
that and yet he's still likable. He's saying to Noel Las,
I'm coming for a spot, I'm coming, and yet I
still think that if you ask him for a photo
that he'd be completely humble about it. And I think
that that is the beauty of it. He's managed to
have that balance between this almost all American attitude with
(18:57):
the Australian humility that where just putting him on a
pedestal and I am I'm so about it and I
just can't wait to watch same. And what I like
about Noah Lyles is that you know he knows he's
at the top, but he hears him say I'm coming
for you, and he goes.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, I like that, Yeah, I like that chan come
for me, Like.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
He actually embraces it, because that's what keeps them competitive,
that's what keeps them at the top of their game,
is that they need these younger sprinters coming up, nipping
at their heels saying I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
What I find I think the thing is.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
We know that he competed in the Under twenty World Championships.
He got second, he was beaten by I think it
was a South African sprinter who is eighteen months older
than him. I mean that's another young person. So there
are these other sprinters coming up in other countries. We've
seen it in Australia who have had promising juniors that
just haven't met their potential.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So it is still a long way away, and it
is so much about cultivating, as you said, his enjoyment
of it, because that's what keeps you going to these
grueling training sessions. If you don't love it, it becomes
a burden. And then that's where I don't see how
you can sustain a future in it. But he's got
the backing, he's got the multimillion dollar deal already, so.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I'm just going to put it out there on a
scale of one two, I'm bloody furious. How terrible is
it that we don't have the COMM Games here next year?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Oh you know what.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Hasn't that age horrendously thinking in the athlete that we have.
I was thinking about that. It is a really saw.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Wrench free in my mind that we are still paying
for that, I know, for nothing. And this is the thing.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
We might get him at the twenty twenty eight Olympics,
but that's in LA that's not here, So it's going
to be seven years before he might be at this
global event in Australia.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I know.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
It's a real shame.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
The one thing that we will say is that there
are track and field meets in Australia all the time.
They've just been off Broadway, and this kid is bringing
them to the forefront. So I will be watching, and
I know that you will be this Saturday. And to
even be able to speak about track and field the
year after a Games with this much excitement and intent,
and what that will mean for young kids that meet
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out and think, oh, yeah, you know what, I will
do athletics, I will do that sort of training. I
just think this is going to be generational. Is he
the greatest ever? Potentially?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I think so, and that is bloody cool. Laura.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I'm glad to hear because we now have a fun
fact and I actually am going to have our first
ever fun fact retraction on.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Two good scales. It has taken us three seasons to
get here. Earlier this season, I said to Georgie one
of the inns for the year was going to be
Gout Gout. Let's just say it's already aged incredibly well.
To me, that's one win for Jelmy. But I then said,
fun fact, his name is gua Quatch. Oh yeah, played
the clip of his own dad, and I thought, don't
need to fact check this guy is his genetic father.
(22:08):
I don't need to check that that's right. Turns Out
Gout then turned around and I was like, Dad, I've been
called Gout my whole life.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'm not changing my name.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So the media has had this headspin, including myself, where
I've gone, oh, how terrible that we just didn't fact
check how to say this kid's name. It's Guaquat, better
go and tell everyone to say it correctly. And then
the kid himself has gone, it's giving a parent that's like, no,
it's not Darce, it's Darse. Like don't you think those
like oh no, no, gab No, it's Gabrielle, Like you
(22:40):
know when you just want things pronounced and your kid's like, mate,
it's like I've been called Gabby my whole life.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Let it go.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So my son's name is Darcy. If he turned around
and said I'd like to be known as Darse, I
would be like, you are setting yourself up. You don't,
You are setting yourself up and I.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Can't save you.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
But can you imagine being gout and watching his dad's
press conference and being like, yeah, cool. So for sixteen years,
goutgout flew, but now you're like, ooh, not sure, that
sounds so attractive. I'm just gonna change it up. So anyway,
I need to correct my own fact. So, if you've
listened to this whole podcast going, didn't Abby tell us
earlier in the season that it was guaquat has she
(23:18):
just reverted here? No, we've heard it from his mouth.
He says it at the opening of that pod. If
Bruce McAvaney says it, you know it's true. And he
said that as well. So it's gout gout. But I'm
gonna circle back to Usain Bolt. Now, this is a
fun fact that you may know, but I feel like
the general listener. For whatever reason, this was glazed over
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by the Australian public and it's one of my favorite
sporting fund facts in the country.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Usain Bolt played in the A League. Ah, yes see,
you say, oh yes, I reckon.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
The average Australian says, oh what he And not only that,
we're not talking Melbourne City, We're not talking victory. He
certainly wasn't for this Blues. The Central Coast Mariners boasted
the greatest athlete of all time in their lineup in
the late twenty teens and it was remarkable.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I was working at Fox Sport at the time.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I remember going, so he's just two hours out of Sydney,
is this what's happening right now? And played and again
he's come out and since said it was a mistake.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah see, this is what I thought.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Has he ever come out and gone I want to
tell you about that time I played for the Central
Coast Mariners in Australia.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Like, is that on his list?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
If you google it, and you will be googling it
because you want to see Usain Bolt in the Blue
and Navy and it is a shock to the system,
let me tell you. But if you google it you
will find it an Olympics an article by Olympics dot
Com where he essentially goes it was a mistake.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I should have stayed in Europe.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I didn't want to play football in Europe because I thought,
you know, it'll be all about me and I don't
want that.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
So I went to the.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Furthest place I could think of, which is to bury
himself on the central Coast of Australia and and then
essentially you dine around him, was like, yeah, probably should date.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
In Europe with the quality of football. Well, yeah, yeah,
I made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh the poor Central Coast Mariners are probably like biggest
coop ever.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And then he's turned around and gone.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Which explains why he was always at the Melbourne Cup. Yeah,
I remember how he randomly popped up at events in
Australia and you're.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Like, hello, Well, his mates with John Stephenson, right, So
there was a period where the two of them, I
think they are still friends actually, but they were kind
of thick of thieves when John was running I mean
four hundred meters was his pet events. So they used
to hang out quite a bit, and I think that
was part of the reason that he was out there.
The reason I know this is that I have an
acquaintance who used to date John and Usain may have
(25:40):
been around in.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
A hot tub at some point. There you go, I
was not there. Why does that sound like the start
of a bad joke. I was not there, That's all
I'll say.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Right, However, they were friends, they used to party together,
and I think that was the reason why he spent
a bit of time down under.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
But there you go.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yeah, because I was about to say he probably enjoyed
the relative anonymity that he has down here. But you
can't have anonymity when you're six foot four and your
u same bolt.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
That's the easy look and go wow, that's the tall person.
Then you go wow, that is the fastest man on earth.
Like there's layers to it.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
And this will be gout, gout as well, Like it
will get to a point where he will be walking
wherever he's walking and says he gets stopped. He gets stopped,
doesn't surprise the supermarket. Let people know who he is.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yep, yep. Would I ask for a photo. Yes I would.
I would to thank you for listening to do good
sports sports news. Doore differently? Am I going to ask
there one more questions about the hot tub? You better
believe it. Laura, thank you so much for joining
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Us and listeners will catch you next week, but until then,
be a good sport.
Here at Two Good Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the
land on which we record this podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
There were innerie people. This land was never seated, always
was always will be.
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Hello and welcome to two Good Sports and sports news
told differently. I'm maybe Jelly, and the reason that I'm
doing the lead in is we don't have a Georgie Tunney.
She is off doing the Amazing Race, just a little
run around the planet. But we're joined by the wonderful
three aw football presenter a new title, Laura Spurway.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Welcome Abby Jelly. It's good to be here again.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
And imagine my shock when I heard that Georgie Tunny
might be doing well at the Amazing Race.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Well you mentioned that.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
I did say to George and like, come on, give
us a little pre record so we can put it
in for the Good Sport. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Where are you?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I miss so terribly, But let's have a listen. This
is Georgie's secret message for listeners.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Well, well, well, hi there, dear listeners. Georgie Tunny reporting
from an undisclosed location. I'm currently doing something rather amazing.
I can't tell you where I am. I can't tell
you what I've been doing. I can tell you though
of particular interest for all of our diehard listeners, and
tell me that I've made friends with a dolphin. I've
done it, guys, I've done an olympian and myself, Bronte Campbell,
(01:17):
we are friends?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
How do we get that way? Can't reveal too much.
I hope you are all fantastic. Jell me.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
I miss your gorgeous face, and.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Do not fretch. I'll be back as soon as possible.
Letting you know every single thought that has ever entered
my head?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Miss you?
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Why did that feel like an episode of Gossip Girl?
Like was she going to sign off with xex?
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So I'm intrigued.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Well, the good thing is you can pencil in Bronchie
Campbell as a future guest.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
That's going to be good.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
But the thing, the smoky thing about George is she's
an elite swimmer. She's actually a great swimmer, but cannot
reverse parallel to save a life. Her car looks like
it's bashed up, so if there's anything that requires her
to drag and say this, she can barely ride a bike.
So the fact that they're doing so well good on it,
I'm proud of her. It's her and a partner Rob,
as you may know from os Idol or Robert Millsey Mills.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
So while we.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Miss her, we are pushing on and we'll just wait
and see when she returns.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
It's an unknown. It's an unknown, but I'm reading for.
When I found out that she was doing it, I thought, oh,
she's going to kill this. The two of them together
are going to kill this.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
You say that.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
She called me and she was like, so it occurred
to me that, like, this is a race. She's like,
I just watched and they spend very little time walking.
There's this awkward shuffle they all have to do. Is
that part of what I have to do? And I'm like, babe,
it's in the title amazing race. You're probably going to
have to get some gusto steps up.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Run on camera at some point. Everyone's how do you reckon?
You would do running on camera or just being in
an amazing race?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I would never do it.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
It would bring out I need to be three hours
early for an airport without being an anxious mess. And
then on top of that, I'm the most competitive person
you've ever met, So.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
You would do well?
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Oh would paint me so poorly though, no one would
ever want to be my friend again.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I am that person that needs find my car every
day of the week. My basic navigational skills are horrendous,
so I feel I would be a liability. Well, in
good news, you and I don't have to do an
amazing anything, but we do today need to talk about
an amazing athlete.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Gout, gout.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It's two syllables that have taken over the Australian sporting landscape.
Never before, or in our generation, has there been an
athlete so promising over the sprint over the Glamour distances
of one hundred and two hundred meters. And this kid
is just seventeen and ahead of the Morrow Plant Meet
this weekend. We want to talk about why he could
(03:43):
reshape world sport that's coming up.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
So, Laura, I've got a question for you.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Do we have an Australian athlete that has ever defined
a sport? So when I say this, I mean when
you think about basketball, you think about Jordan, When you
think about golf, you think about woods. I mean with
swimming it was Phelps that you've got Ali Simone Biles.
I mean, have I only said Americans to this point. Absolutely,
(04:23):
So you've also got to think about Ronaldo Messi. These
athletes that come along that are that good, they define
an entire genre. I tried to think of an Australian
athlete that we have, potentially Bradman. Yep, but that's not
a sport that's competed in the Americas. So have we
ever had an athlete of that caliber.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
It's a very big question, and I think the thing
is we have them domestically. Like you said, Bradman, Well,
cricket is a global sport, but it's almost like you
need to be on the radar in the US to
be that truly global name. And that's just the way
it works. With how much cut through American athletes have.
I mean, obviously we could talk about the Kathy Freemans
(05:04):
in terms of what they've meant to Australian athletics. But
on the world stage that was an amazing moment because
it was a home Olympics. But whether or not anyone
has that conversation about her globally as defining a sport,
I would say probably not, even though we would argue
that that was one of the greatest moments in Australian
sporting history.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But I think you need to.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Be attached to like a marquee event that is that
top event on the world stage and do well in it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And the one hundred meter sprint and the two hundred meters,
but the one hundred meters sprint is probably the top
event in the Olympics.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
And is the reason why I believe that Usain Bowles
is the greatest athlete we have ever seen. And when
I was looking back through his stats, the fact that
he went back to back to back over three Olympics
from two thousand and eight to twenty sixteen in both
the one hundred and two hundred meters still holds record
for both one hundred and two hundred meters in the
(06:00):
men's is the most phenomenal feat. And I've been lucky
enough to meet Usain Bolt. And I'm not sure did
you meet him when he was here in Australia doing press.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I did not meet him.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
When you see Usain Bolt in the flesh, you think, yeah,
I actually believe you're the fastest man on earth. He
is six foot four and just looks like he was
built better than everyone else. And then comes along this kid,
this Ipswich grammar going Queenslander who is only just seventeen
(06:32):
and is being likened to the greatest of all time,
to the point where Bolt himself has gone, man, that
kid looks like me. He's the fastest ever Australian over
two hundred meters and in the last couple of weeks
has actually run under twenty seconds, which is mind boggling,
but it didn't count because it was wind assisted. But
we have a chance, and I'm putting it out there
(06:55):
to have someone that could be that good, that his
genre defining for the first time in Australian sporting history.
And I know that that's a lot of pressure to
put on seventeen year old shoulders, but the records are there.
He is the fastest sixteen year old ever, more than
Bolt ever, so running faster than Bolt at the same age.
(07:15):
And I bring out these comparisons because that's when this
kid Gout Gout went viral. Is that people basically put
a split screen online and showed you Sain Bolt and
gout Gout running and the comparisons followed.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
So he actually appeared.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
His first ever podcast was with Noah Lyles, who's the
current world one hundred meters champion casually and the fastest
manner of one hundred meters in the world at the moment,
and then Grant Holloway, who won the one hundred and
ten meter hurdles at Paris. So he appeared on their
podcast Beyond the Records and talked about this comparison that's
been following him. I say, his whole life, it's a
very short life. He burst onto the scene in twenty thirteen,
(07:52):
and the Bolt comparisons followed.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
I mean exactly what you said. I'm trying to be
in the next gout Gout and obviously being Pethew's Bolt,
everyone wants to be the next star basically, and you
send both the best friend so with no best athlete,
so being compared to him, it's obviously great. But then
I'm got gout, so I want to be able to
make my name as big as his name, and obviously
(08:15):
everyone people younger would be like, you're you're going to
be next go gout tub, So yeah, I want to
be like that. We just came up of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Don't you love him?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I think he seems like such a lovely young man.
He clearly has good people around him because that is
a huge label to have at his age, and when
you already are in that stratgy where the man himself
knows who you are, saying Bolt knows who you are.
He is saying you look like me. Of course everyone
(08:48):
pays attention. And now they're following this kid and he
is racing in Melbourne, but people are watching. When he
was racing in Queensland, I mean the crowd there, it
was there, but it wasn't anything astronomical. People are watching
and it's just going to keep growing for him. I
think it's so hard when they're that young to be
able to say in seven years at twenty thirty two,
(09:10):
because I know they have their eyes on that this
is what he could do. It is a long way
between now and then, and it's such a grind, but
it is so exciting.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
It is so exciting.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Well, they ask him in that podcast what are you
going to do? And in twenty thirty two in Brisbane
he's like, I imagine I'm going to like get it.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I'm going to get the whole.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
Crowd to start seeing the national anthem is what he says, Like,
I'm going to run a lap, Everyone's going to start
singing Advance Australia Fair. There's going to be absolute pandemonium,
Like he's already painting the picture again talking to Noah
Lyles where he says in that podcast, I'm coming for
you like I am coming for you. And the reason
why he did actually get on that podcast is he
just signed a multi million dollar deal with addeddas Adidas
(09:56):
added as Potato Potato however you say it, seventeen and
signing a multi million dollar deal and this kid is
still at school.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Yep, he's still at school.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
So he's having to try to coordinate his running times
around I don't know, lunch recess.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
He's a school prefect.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
He's a classic overachiever apparently also a straight A student.
How do we the Australian public best, I guess, nurture
this kid or take care.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I want to take care of him and make sure
he still loves it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Well.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
I think the fact that he's at school is a
good thing.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The fact that he's living the life of a teenager,
of a seventeen year old who is going to school,
who has to sit in those lessons, who has to
do the crappy homework. He's around kids his age who
isn't just you know, at elite international destinations all the time,
with all the hot shots of the sport. I heard
something where someone said he needs to be racing with
(10:52):
kids his own age. He still needs to be around
those mean have you seen I have seen racing kids
his own age.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
I have seen it. In any other context, it would
be bullying, Laura.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
I know, like, if my child's coming second, I'm calling
and being like is this necessary at this point? Because
at the two undermeter bend, when he's already finished, I
feel like this is a little demoralizing. And again for context,
this is a now seventeen year old who is running
times that would have had him sixth at the Paris Games.
So non is making the men's final and he's point
(11:29):
zero five of a second off running fourth.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
The other thing is what I know sprinters, and this
is not gymnastics where they peak young sprinters are at
their best in their mid twenties. It happens to be
when this kid is going to be racing in Brisbane
and he happens to be a Brisbane native. The narrative
around it's almost so storybook that I feel like we
(11:52):
might stuff it up.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
See the thing.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Let's not make any sudden movements and just let him
be who he is. So he's still really really lean,
Like if you look at him when he runs, he
is so lean still. And someone like Usain Bolt, who
was very tall as well, had that kind of powerful
stature that you only get with the years of training
and as you develop into your body as a sprinter,
(12:16):
says she like she was a sprinter, was not do
not have the build of a spring. He's one hundred
and eighty centimeters, which is actually the same height as
Noel Arles we mentioned, a prolific two hundred meter runner
and the current men's one hundred meter champion from Paris.
So he's already at that height of grown men, Like
is he going to scale the heights of Usain Bolt?
(12:37):
Probably not to have that physique, but the comparisons in
their run. His starts are terrible, and I say terrible,
they're fantastic, but they're terrible by his own standards. And
then he almost seems the words of Kathy Freeman, he
looks like he shot out of a cannon with the
pace and the length of his strides that he hits
when he actually hits his full acceleration. So if he
(12:58):
can get his starts right, the sky's the limit for
this kid.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
But that's what I mean. There's room for improvement with
someone that young.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And if he does have this aspect of his race
that he needs to improve the starting, well, he's got
the time to do it, doesn't he. And he's got
the scope to do it because he is still that young,
so he's not reached his full potential. And he's got
this ripping coach behind him who has this personality awesome
Dinky dye queen took.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
A job at the didn't she take a job?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
She took a job at the school canteen, the uniform
shop because you need the uniform shop because you needed
to have a job in the school in order to coach.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So that's what she did. Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
And she spotted this kid at under twelves and said
to him, I reckon, you can be something, And then
called James Templeton and said, I reckon, there's a guy
that you're going to need to manage here, and he said,
please tell me you're calling about gout gout.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yep. The kid's thirteen.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
Like in my head, I'm like, what was I doing
at thirteen, probably trying to sneak into PG thirteen movies
at this stage of my life, like the pressure on this.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I just.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
I want him to keep loving it, because if we
zoom out to what's happening at the moment in Australian sport,
you've got a kid like Harlie Reid who's nineteen playing
in Perth under the immense pressure that comes from being
in a two team town and such a high draft
pick in Perth. The media are going to follow your
every move and it's a level of celebrity that unless
(14:26):
you're from.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Perth you probably can't understand.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
That's all we have over there, okay, And everyone's talking
about how they manage him and how they care for him,
because it's just so much on his shoulders. He's nineteen.
This kid is seventeen and the world is aware of him.
How do we keep him loving sport and not feeling
the pressure of it all? But he just seems to
(14:49):
have the disposition to handle it.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I think it's about the people around him, and he
seems to have a good team around him, and he
seems to have a very humble family, hard.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Working family, one of seven, yes, lots.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Of siblings, but also parents who've worked really hard to
get him to a private school, like not a well
to do family fled a civil war in South Sudan
to come to Australia. That's the backstory there, so we're
not talking about people who've had everything handed to them,
have actually come from tragedy and he I think it
sounds like he's got the people around him to keep
(15:25):
him humble. I think he's in a sport where you
can shield them a little bit because they're not playing
a match week in week out, like Harlee Reid is
with AFL, where he's on TV every week, where there's
an audience that will scrutinize him every week.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
This is not what this sport is.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
So you can send them over to America, you can
train with the stars. That's all probably done quite privately.
We can't get in there, or you know, reporters can't
get in there, and then they go to these meets
and that's when you really get to see how they're going.
But they're not sort of week in week out, so
I feel like that helps a little bit. But maybe
I mean, for the first time we're seeing something like
(16:03):
the Murray plant meat and if you're saying the pardon
of the water, that's because it's never been broadcasted.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It's on free to wear this weekend and the ticket
sales have been crazy to see this kid.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
And we've got Bruce mcavany, Jason Richardson, I mean, you've
got Dave, Colbert, Tamson, Manu, like all of these names
that usually cover Olympic events are covering this meet and
it's going to be on primetime.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
So what it's going to do for athletics.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
And the other thing is I've listened to Patrick Johnson
talk about this kid, and of course he's the only
ever Australian to run sub ten seconds over the one
hundred meters, so he is the one that gout is
essentially chasing down pun intended. And he said, it's just
important that we make sure that this kid keeps enjoying
running and that he doesn't get poached by other sports
because he's like so often we have promising athletes. And
(16:50):
he was a football fan, is in the round ball
game growing up, and football is obviously so lucrative and
a global sport that it starts to attract them away
so early. He was like, keep him in track and
field and keep him happy is the key to his
persistence in this. But that's the other thing, like the
thought of having an Aussie in the one hundred meter
final blows my mind at a Games, and the thought
(17:13):
of it being into Brisbane Games, I don't know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
So bullish about it. It's so exciting.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
And again just to see track and field followed this way,
I can't remember an Australian athlete being this promising. Well,
we've always been the swimming nation, right, everyone always goes, oh, yeah,
there's always good swimmers in Australia, but track and field
at the moment, we've actually got some red hot I know,
she's amazing and I just sort of think, you know,
(17:41):
but traditionally, obviously we haven't been churning them out to
the levels that we have with swimming, which you know
very clearly for such a small country by sea. We
are by sea, and so this is why when you
get someone of this caliber in Australia in this event,
which is so hard to crack, this is why you
(18:02):
get this level of attention because we just don't have
for whatever reason, that's just not what we're producing most
of the time. One hundred meter metal contenders, and you
know he says that's what he wants and that he
will be a medal contender. His coach believes it, his
manager believes it. There's sprinters and it's why I love it.
(18:24):
They can have this bravado about them, like there's something
of course like Sprint on Netflix, Who've spoken about in
this podcast before.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
And they have this swagger right and this belief of
I'm the greatest.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Just asked me.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And the wonderful thing about Gout is that he has
that and yet he's still likable. He's saying to Noel Las,
I'm coming for a spot, I'm coming, and yet I
still think that if you ask him for a photo
that he'd be completely humble about it. And I think
that that is the beauty of it. He's managed to
have that balance between this almost all American attitude with
(18:57):
the Australian humility that where just putting him on a
pedestal and I am I'm so about it and I
just can't wait to watch same. And what I like
about Noah Lyles is that you know he knows he's
at the top, but he hears him say I'm coming
for you, and he goes.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, I like that, Yeah, I like that chan come
for me, Like.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
He actually embraces it, because that's what keeps them competitive,
that's what keeps them at the top of their game,
is that they need these younger sprinters coming up, nipping
at their heels saying I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
What I find I think the thing is.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
We know that he competed in the Under twenty World Championships.
He got second, he was beaten by I think it
was a South African sprinter who is eighteen months older
than him. I mean that's another young person. So there
are these other sprinters coming up in other countries. We've
seen it in Australia who have had promising juniors that
just haven't met their potential.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
So it is still a long way away, and it
is so much about cultivating, as you said, his enjoyment
of it, because that's what keeps you going to these
grueling training sessions. If you don't love it, it becomes
a burden. And then that's where I don't see how
you can sustain a future in it. But he's got
the backing, he's got the multimillion dollar deal already, so.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I'm just going to put it out there on a
scale of one two, I'm bloody furious. How terrible is
it that we don't have the COMM Games here next year?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Oh you know what.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Hasn't that age horrendously thinking in the athlete that we have.
I was thinking about that. It is a really saw.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Wrench free in my mind that we are still paying
for that, I know, for nothing. And this is the thing.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
We might get him at the twenty twenty eight Olympics,
but that's in LA that's not here, So it's going
to be seven years before he might be at this
global event in Australia.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I know.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
It's a real shame.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
The one thing that we will say is that there
are track and field meets in Australia all the time.
They've just been off Broadway, and this kid is bringing
them to the forefront. So I will be watching, and
I know that you will be this Saturday. And to
even be able to speak about track and field the
year after a Games with this much excitement and intent,
and what that will mean for young kids that meet
(21:10):
out and think, oh, yeah, you know what, I will
do athletics, I will do that sort of training. I
just think this is going to be generational. Is he
the greatest ever? Potentially?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
I think so, and that is bloody cool. Laura.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
I'm glad to hear because we now have a fun
fact and I actually am going to have our first
ever fun fact retraction on.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
Two good scales. It has taken us three seasons to
get here. Earlier this season, I said to Georgie one
of the inns for the year was going to be
Gout Gout. Let's just say it's already aged incredibly well.
To me, that's one win for Jelmy. But I then said,
fun fact, his name is gua Quatch. Oh yeah, played
the clip of his own dad, and I thought, don't
need to fact check this guy is his genetic father.
(22:08):
I don't need to check that that's right. Turns Out
Gout then turned around and I was like, Dad, I've been
called Gout my whole life.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I'm not changing my name.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So the media has had this headspin, including myself, where
I've gone, oh, how terrible that we just didn't fact
check how to say this kid's name. It's Guaquat, better
go and tell everyone to say it correctly. And then
the kid himself has gone, it's giving a parent that's like, no,
it's not Darce, it's Darse. Like don't you think those
like oh no, no, gab No, it's Gabrielle, Like you
(22:40):
know when you just want things pronounced and your kid's like, mate,
it's like I've been called Gabby my whole life.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Let it go.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So my son's name is Darcy. If he turned around
and said I'd like to be known as Darse, I
would be like, you are setting yourself up. You don't,
You are setting yourself up and I.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Can't save you.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
But can you imagine being gout and watching his dad's
press conference and being like, yeah, cool. So for sixteen years,
goutgout flew, but now you're like, ooh, not sure, that
sounds so attractive. I'm just gonna change it up. So anyway,
I need to correct my own fact. So, if you've
listened to this whole podcast going, didn't Abby tell us
earlier in the season that it was guaquat has she
(23:18):
just reverted here? No, we've heard it from his mouth.
He says it at the opening of that pod. If
Bruce McAvaney says it, you know it's true. And he
said that as well. So it's gout gout. But I'm
gonna circle back to Usain Bolt. Now, this is a
fun fact that you may know, but I feel like
the general listener. For whatever reason, this was glazed over
(23:40):
by the Australian public and it's one of my favorite
sporting fund facts in the country.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Usain Bolt played in the A League. Ah, yes see,
you say, oh yes, I reckon.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
The average Australian says, oh what he And not only that,
we're not talking Melbourne City, We're not talking victory. He
certainly wasn't for this Blues. The Central Coast Mariners boasted
the greatest athlete of all time in their lineup in
the late twenty teens and it was remarkable.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I was working at Fox Sport at the time.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
I remember going, so he's just two hours out of Sydney,
is this what's happening right now? And played and again
he's come out and since said it was a mistake.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah see, this is what I thought.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Has he ever come out and gone I want to
tell you about that time I played for the Central
Coast Mariners in Australia.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Like, is that on his list?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
If you google it, and you will be googling it
because you want to see Usain Bolt in the Blue
and Navy and it is a shock to the system,
let me tell you. But if you google it you
will find it an Olympics an article by Olympics dot
Com where he essentially goes it was a mistake.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
I should have stayed in Europe.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
I didn't want to play football in Europe because I thought,
you know, it'll be all about me and I don't
want that.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
So I went to the.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Furthest place I could think of, which is to bury
himself on the central Coast of Australia and and then
essentially you dine around him, was like, yeah, probably should date.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
In Europe with the quality of football. Well, yeah, yeah,
I made a mistake.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Oh the poor Central Coast Mariners are probably like biggest
coop ever.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
And then he's turned around and gone.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Which explains why he was always at the Melbourne Cup. Yeah,
I remember how he randomly popped up at events in
Australia and you're.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Like, hello, Well, his mates with John Stephenson, right, So
there was a period where the two of them, I
think they are still friends actually, but they were kind
of thick of thieves when John was running I mean
four hundred meters was his pet events. So they used
to hang out quite a bit, and I think that
was part of the reason that he was out there.
The reason I know this is that I have an
acquaintance who used to date John and Usain may have
(25:40):
been around in.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
A hot tub at some point. There you go, I
was not there. Why does that sound like the start
of a bad joke. I was not there, That's all
I'll say.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Right, However, they were friends, they used to party together,
and I think that was the reason why he spent
a bit of time down under.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
But there you go.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Yeah, because I was about to say he probably enjoyed
the relative anonymity that he has down here. But you
can't have anonymity when you're six foot four and your
u same bolt.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
That's the easy look and go wow, that's the tall person.
Then you go wow, that is the fastest man on earth.
Like there's layers to it.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
And this will be gout, gout as well, Like it
will get to a point where he will be walking
wherever he's walking and says he gets stopped. He gets stopped,
doesn't surprise the supermarket. Let people know who he is.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yep, yep. Would I ask for a photo. Yes I would.
I would to thank you for listening to do good
sports sports news. Doore differently? Am I going to ask
there one more questions about the hot tub? You better
believe it. Laura, thank you so much for joining
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Us and listeners will catch you next week, but until then,
be a good sport.
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