- The actual name is Guot, correctly pronounced ‘Gwot’
- Track Star’s father, Bona, is annoyed by constant mistakes
- Gout’s manager James Templeton on another page
The manager of Australian sprint sensation Gout Gout has bizarrely declared that the teenager’s name is here to stay.
It comes despite Gout’s father Bona recently confirming that his son’s name is Guot and pronounced ‘Gwot’.
“Firstly, it’s gout,” James Templeton told SEN Radio.
“Yes, yes, I know there was some discussion, and I know his father made some comments, but Gout Gout, that’s the way it’s going to be.
‘Categorically it’s Gout Gout. You know, the thing you’re hoping to avoid on your ankle.
‘That’s how it’s pronounced.’
Bona Guot is convinced that his son’s current statement was ‘not acceptable’.
“His name is Guot, it should be Guot,” he said. ‘When I see people calling him Gout Gout, I’m not really happy for him.
James Templeton (left) – the manager of Australian sprinting sensation Gout Gout – has bizarrely declared that the teenager’s name is a persistently incorrect way of saying
It comes despite Gout’s father Bona (pictured, in white shirt) recently confirming his son’s name is Guot and pronounced ‘Gwot’
James Templeton told SEN: ‘Categorically speaking it’s gout. You know, the thing you hope to avoid in your ankle’
‘I know Gout Gout is a disease name, but I don’t want my son to be called a disease name… it’s something that is not acceptable.’
Ny Breaking Australia understands that an Arabic translation error by the Sudanese government when the family migrated to Egypt is the reason for the error.
The accident also happened before Gout was born in Australia.
The Ipswich product has set the athletics world on fire with his lightning speed, producing the fastest 200 meters ever run by a 16-year-old.
His recent time of 20.04 at the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships in Brisbane makes him the sixth fastest athlete in the world under the age of 20.
Gout also clocked a blistering 10.04 in his 100m heat to win the final.
Meanwhile, Athletics Australia president Jane Flemming has stated that the sporting body wants to “tone down” the hype surrounding teenage sprint sensation Gout.
Flemming – who won gold medals in the heptathlon and long jump at the Commonwealth Games – stressed expectations should not reach manic levels.
Gout recently broke a 56-year-old Australian record to become the fastest 16-year-old in the world in the 200 meters at the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships
Former track star turned TV identity Matt Shirvington has been blown away, suggesting the child prodigy has more potential than Olympic legend Usain Bolt
“You can imagine the moment he gets every sporting code, every agent, every commercial entity, they’re all chasing him and he hasn’t even completed Year 11 yet,” she told 2GB’s Wide World of Sports.
‘Part of our responsibility as an organization is to ensure that the young man reaches his thirties in good physical and mental condition, so we have to try to temper it… make sure he goes back to school, hangs out with his friends, has having a good time while still making progress.
‘It’s a long road. Rightly so, he will probably make it to the world championships next year and then the Olympics and another Olympics and maybe another Olympics after that.”
Flemming added that Athletics Australia wants to see Gout “have a long and fruitful career” – and the young player is fortunate to have a “fantastic coach in Di Sheppard.”
Former track star turned TV identity Matt Shirvington has been blown away, suggesting the child prodigy has more potential than Olympic legend Usain Bolt.
And even Bolt himself is impressed, saying that Gout “looks like me at the same age.”