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Time of India
3 days ago
- Sport
- Time of India
"Who doesn't want to be Usain Bolt?": Gout Gout beats Olympic favorite in Europe and breaks his own 200m record
"Who doesn't want to be Usain Bolt?": Gout Gout beats Olympic favorite in Europe and breaks his own 200m record (Image via Getty) A 17-year-old sprinter from Australia is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting names in track and field. At just 17 years of age, he already runs times that many Olympic greats took years to run. On June 18, 2025, during his first senior race outside Australia, Gout Gout made headlines across the world. What he did in the Czech Republic has fans and experts now calling him the 'next Usain Bolt .' But what exactly happened that day? And how far is he from making history? Gout Gout runs 20.02 seconds in Czech Republic and beats Olympic favourite Reynier Mena On Tuesday, June 18, 2025, at the Golden Spike athletics meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Gout Gout ran the 200m in a blistering 20.02 seconds! This was Gout Gout's first senior race in Europe and not only did he win, he defeated Reynier Mena of Cuba, the man expected to win the race! This race was a part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold series. Gout Gout had already broken the 200m Australian record back in December 2024 which had stood for 56 years. He had actually gone and broken his own national record again, recording 20.02 seconds for the 200m, equaling, to the hundredth of a second, his own personal best, which he was allowed to do in this instance. This race was particularly newsworthy not just because of the time; but he ran faster than Usain Bolt's first run at the same Golden Spike meet of Ostrava (19 years earlier)! Gout Gout says he feels no pressure and dreams of being himself, not just Usain Bolt After the race, Gout Gout spoke confidently. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Live the Luxe Life – 3 BHK at ₹3.85 Cr* | Sunteck City Sunteck City Learn More Undo 'I feel good. I don't feel any pressure,' he told reporters . 'As soon as I get on the track, it's just me and running — my favourite thing.' Gout Gout added that he's happy to be compared to Usain Bolt but wants to show his own personality. 'Who doesn't want to be Usain Bolt? But I also want to be me,' he said. Gout Gout's journey has caught the attention of big names, including Olympic champion Noah Lyles, who invited him to train. Even Usain Bolt noticed and posted online, 'He looks like young me.' Gout Gout still has two months before turning 18. At 17 years and 10 months, Usain Bolt shattered the 20-second threshold. The planet is now waiting to see whether gout can do it too. Also Read: Why Gout Gout's Under 10 Serving 100m Run Was Deemed Illegal Game On Season 1 continues with Mirabai Chanu's inspiring story. Watch Episode 2 here.
AllAfrica
3 days ago
- Politics
- AllAfrica
The myth of Russia and China's peer stealth threat
For over a decade, Russia and China have been touted in the media and defense spaces as twin bogeymen menacing the US-led security order. One of the most feverish ways this fear presents itself is the concept of Russia or China matching or surpassing the US in the fields of stealth technology and advanced fifth-generation fighters. Bean-count numbers in the casual defense space tally up the PLAAF's J-20 stealth aircraft alongside the US's F-35 and F-22 fleets and speculate on Russia's ability to detect and shoot down US stealth aircraft with its vaunted S-400 air defense system. If this is indeed an arms race, then the United States should be thrilled as every conceivable advantage is on its side. In this race, the US is effectively bringing Usain Bolt to the contest, Russia is a paralytic and China is a pre-teen getting ready for its first middle school track meet. To start, Russia's fifth-generation stealth capabilities can be written off with relative certainty. After a tortuously delayed and over-expensive program lasting three decades, the number of Su-57s delivered is just edging over 20. Russia's absurdly poor production quality paired with the Su-57's 4th generation 'unstealthy' engines and absence of meaningful combat near or in Ukraine is strong evidence that its fighters probably are not true stealth nor are they fifth-generation. Meanwhile, the S-400's ability to detect fifth-generation fighters at any meaningful range is at best questionable given significant overclaiming by the Russian Ministry of Defense in the past, so outrageously revealed in the Ukraine war that Moscow arrested its own top aerospace scientists for treason. This, combined with Russian legacy systems' historically poor performance against US aircraft in Iraq, Yugoslavia and Syria, gives little sign that the evolutionary upgrade that is the S-400 would fare any better against the US stealth planes of today. They also suffer from the critical flaw that S-400s are both in NATO and that the Russians have no way to reliably, internally test their own systems against a verified stealth aircraft. As for China, without a comparative analysis, it would appear that the PLA-Air Force has done somewhat better in the stealth field. While possessing the same unproven ability to actually be a stealth aircraft, the PLAAF has at least fielded its first stealth fighter, the J-20, in 2017 and possesses perhaps as many as 300 today. Its unveiled H-20 fifth-generation bomber is touted as bringing new and lethal capabilities to China's force projection. Without context, China's growing force can appear to be a pertinent, rising challenge to US aerospace dominance. Contextualized, however, the US's complete dominance of the aerospace sphere becomes apparent. The US led China by more than four decades in introducing its first stealth aircraft, the F-117 Nighthawk, with the immeasurable advantage of actually being tested in combat and against a highly prepared foe. In 1991, Baghdad was considered the most heavily defended city on earth, with a vaunted air defense system composed of hundreds of SAM sites, thousands of anti-aircraft guns and a powerful network of air defense radars. More than three decades ago, the first generation of F-117 stealth bombers dismantled this air defense system from within without a single casualty. Twelve years before the J-20 was operationally fielded, the first US fifth-generation fighter, the F-22 was introduced to service. Today, the US fields more of the F-22's direct successor, the F-35, than every other fifth-generation fighter type in the world combined, including the US Air Force's own sizable F-22 fleet. If it came to war in the Indo-Pacific, China's J-20, with a radar cross section (RCS) plausibly that of a Super Hornet's, would be outnumbered four to one by F-22s and F-35s, inheritors of a demonstrably lethal line of US fighter technology. Veteran F-15 pilots have described flying against the F-22 'like having two football teams against each other and one of them [the Raptor] is invisible,' and described engaging aggressor fighters with an ease like 'clubbing baby seals' in field tests. China has operationally deployed exactly zero of its much-hyped H-20, leaving the US as the only military force on the globe not only fielding the world's only fifth-generation stealth bombers (the B-2) but having done so unopposed for 27 years. Put in context, the B-2's 27-year operational gap over the H-20 is the same length of time between the first primitive biplane duels over the battlegrounds of WWI and the vast, coordinated air campaigns of the Battle of Britain. Three of the B-2's sixth-generation replacement, the B-21 Raider, are already flying in the US. While the USAF has employed stealth aircraft in combat continually from Panama to Desert Storm to the 20-year War on Terror, Russian and Chinese stealth planes have never been confirmed by any outside source to have participated in combat of any kind. Beyond the US's demonstrated major advantages in numbers and combat experience, the Russians and Chinese both face a nearly insurmountable issue for their own design programs. Put simply, there is no way for either nation to practically verify if their aircraft are 'stealthy' or not, or if they can detect enemy stealth aircraft. There is no question that their engineers have succeeded in designing airframes with a low RCS, which can be independently measured. However, the Russians and the Chinese have no way of knowing if their aircraft have any realistic stealth or counter-stealth capability. By comparison, the US can test itself against both its own proven designs and its adversary's top systems. Officially decommissioned F-117s have seen regular use in aggressor training, testing modern US designs' ability to acquire and engage stealth targets. Knowing that their F-117s defeated the best Soviet-era air defenses in the world over Baghdad and that the B-2 operated freely in the well-defended Kosovo airspace gave US engineers a rock-solid base from which to continue their stealth development with the assurance that their designs actually worked in combat. The presence of Turkish S-400s in NATO has allowed the US a direct ability to test their aircraft against Russia's top defense system and develop countermeasures. Meanwhile, Russia and China have no way to practically test their stealth aircraft and sensor systems, other than using their own unproven designs as a basis. Between historical and habitual Russian and Chinese overclaiming, no demonstrated capability and no ability for either to realistically test their own 'stealth' aircraft, the evidence suggests that neither has any stealth aircraft yet. Instead, the preponderance of evidence shows that their proclaimed 'stealth' aircraft should instead be classified as 'low-observable' – aircraft with measures taken to reduce their radar signature – rather than true stealth designs. This is not to say definitively that neither Russia nor China has any stealth aircraft. Rather, this article calls for their existence to be debatable rather than an unquestioned and accepted truth. Not only are the Russian and Chinese air forces at a numerical and experience disadvantage in the realm of fifth-generation fighters, but their very possession of stealth aircraft may well be more myth than reality. Walker Gargagliano is a post-graduate fellow at the Trevor Dupuy Institute and research assistant at the National Security Archive in Washington DC. He has written and presented research for the Society for Military History, George Washington University's Cold War Studies Group and Phi Alpha Theta, and lectured on military history at the University of North Texas and George Washington University. The views expressed here are his own.
Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Gout Gout tops another Usain Bolt feat but teen faces race to break 200m record
Gout Gout set a new Australian record for the 200m on his senior international debut, but the 17-year-old still has a way to go to match Usain Bolt's feat and smash through the sub-20 barrier Teenage sprinting prodigy Gout Gout has smashed the Australian 200m record during his senior international debut at the Golden Spike event in Czechia. The 17-year-old clocked a blistering 20.02, edging closer to breaking the sub-20 mark before his 18th birthday, much like Usain Bolt. Gout's first senior European outing in Ostrava on Tuesday was eagerly awaited. The young speedster had already shattered Peter Norman's long-standing Australian national 200m record with a time of 20.04 in December 2024 when he was just 16. Amongst Europe's elite sprinters, he bettered his own personal best. The Queensland-born superstar clinched the men's 200m race in a time of 20.02, finishing two-tenths ahead of Cuba's Reynier Mena, who bagged the last two Diamond League 200m titles. Since breaking Norman's record last December, Gout has been causing quite a stir. He broke through the 20-second barrier in April with an impressive 19.84, securing the Australian 200m title. However, this run was aided by a wind speed of +2.2 metres per second, so it doesn't count as an official record, reports the Express. Gout's performances were again thwarted by excessive wind during the Australian Under-20 Athletics Championships in Perth. He clocked two sub-10 second 100m times, but they didn't make the record books. Nevertheless, Gout has now set a new official personal best in his favoured 200m at the Golden Spike event and was pleased with his performance. "I feel good. New personal best, new national record in my first European race," Gout declared. "I don't feel any pressure. Because as soon as I step out on that track, it's just me by myself and what I've got to do - my favourite thing, and that's to run." Gout's aspirations include tearing down the sub-20-second barrier in the 200m, and he's confident that with increased competition exposure, that milestone is well within his grasp. "I just go out there and run and nothing stops me from doing that," he asserted confidently. "[I need to] get some more races in me and [the 20-second barrier] will drop for sure." At just 17 years old, Gout's raw talent has drawn parallels to none other than Bolt, who blazed through his teenage years before shattering records on the Olympic stage. Bolt clocked a staggering 19.93 seconds in Bermuda back in 2004, mere months before his 18th birthday, setting a new World Junior 200m record. With his own 18th birthday on December 29, Gout has time on his side to either equal or surpass Bolt's mark. Yet, amidst all the buzz, he's keen to remind everyone that his journey is his own, and he's looking to set his unique mark in the annals of athletics history. "Although I do run like Usain Bolt and I do maybe look like him, I'm just trying to be myself and trying to be the next Gout," he revealed to Channel 7 in March. "I want to go to the big events. I want to go to the Olympics. I want to go to the '28 Olympics in LA. I want to go to the [2032] Brisbane Olympics. And I just want to show the world that I'm Gout and how I'm here to stay."
Al Jazeera
3 days ago
- Sport
- Al Jazeera
Gout Gout breaks own 200m record; beats Bolt's Golden Spike debut time
Australian teenage sprinter Gout Gout has crushed the 200-metre field in his first senior race abroad, bettering his own national record by two hundredths of a second to finish in 20.02 seconds at the Ostrava Golden Spike. The 17-year-old high school student ran a textbook race in his European debut at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event in the Czech Republic on Tuesday, crossing the line 0.17 seconds ahead of Cuban Reynier Mena, while Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (20.60) was third. 'I feel good. New personal best, new national record in my first European race,' the boy from Queensland told reporters. Gout is being compared with Usain Bolt as he beat the Jamaican icon's time at Ostrava. Bolt finished his first 200m race at the event in 20.28 in 2006, but went on to win three Olympic 200-metre golds and set a new world record of 19.19 seconds. 'I don't feel any pressure. Because as soon as I step out on that track, it's just me by myself and what I've got to do – my favourite thing, and that's to run,' Gout said of the expectations. 'So, I just go out there and run and nothing stops me from doing that … Get some more races in me and [the 20-second barrier] will drop for sure.' Gout made headlines in December when he broke Peter Norman's national record that had stood for 56 years at 20.04. He ran a 19.84-second 200 and 9.99 seconds in the 100m at the Australian national championships in Perth in April but a strong tailwind rendered both illegal. Even without those two sub-20 times, he's still in the top seven all-time for Under-20s, a list that includes Bolt. Gout was born in Ipswich, near Brisbane, in Queensland state. His parents are South Sudanese immigrants who moved to Australia in 2005. His performances were strong enough, however, to earn him a spot on Australia's team for the World Championships in Tokyo in September.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Sprint sensation Gout Gout sets new target after smashing Australian record in first race in Europe
Australian teenage sprinter Gout Gout crushed the 200 metres field in his first senior race abroad, bettering his own national record by two hundredths of a second to finish in 20.02 seconds at the Ostrava Golden Spike. The 17-year-old ran a textbook race in his European debut at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold event in the Czech Republic, crossing the line 0.17 seconds ahead of Cuban Reynier Mena, while Briton Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (20.60) was third. "I feel good. New personal best, new national record in my first European race," the Queensland schoolboy told reporters. "I don't feel any pressure. Because as soon as I step out on that track, it's just me by myself and what I've got to do my favourite thing, and that's to run. "So, I just go out there and run and nothing stops me from doing that ... Get some more races in me and [the 20-second barrier] will drop for sure." Gout has drawn comparisons to Jamaican great Usain Bolt and he made headlines in December when he broke Peter Norman's national record that had stood for 56 years in 20.04. He ran a 19.84-second 200 and 9.99 seconds in the 100m at the Australian national championships in Perth in April but a strong tailwind rendered both illegal. His performances were strong enough, however, to earn him a spot on Australia's team for the World Championships in Tokyo in September. Reuters
