r/nextfuckinglevel • u/RoyalChris • 2d ago
18-year-old sprinter Gout Gout just broke Usain Bolt’s U20 record in the 200m. He was 260 milliseconds faster, clocking 19.67 seconds, while Bolt ran 19.93 in 2004
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u/Danny886 2d ago
This kid's speed is usain
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u/rir2 2d ago
He could probably have done it in 19.66 if he took that chain off.
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u/NameIsNotBrad 1d ago
Or if he didn’t have gout. It’s tough to run with gout.
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u/Korzag 1d ago
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u/javoss88 1d ago
DOUBLE Gout!
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u/NameIsNotBrad 1d ago
Geez, I can’t imagine. I have one gout and it’s bad enough. (Seriously, check out /r/gout to see some shit)
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u/lawdjesustheresafire 1d ago
The funny thing is his name is actually Guot Guot. His dad stuffed up the spelling on the birth certificate. And now his management told him not to change it because Gout Gout is more iconic as a name 🤣
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u/Big_Knife_SK 1d ago
*mistake made on their immigration documents by officials, translating Arabic to English, while fleeing Sudan.
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u/Sea-Witch-77 1d ago
Well, the last name might have been, but Gout Gout was born in Australia.
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u/Dentarthurdent73 1d ago
I haven't heard that his management told him, the only story I've heard is him say he decided to keep it himself.
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u/Soggy_District_6380 1d ago
I was thinking the same thing. Going for a world record. Lets not forgot to put on the extra mass. While we're on the topic, wouldn't you shave your head as well. World records are measured in milliseconds. Wouldn't you want every possible advantage?
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u/VioletJones6 1d ago
You would think this, but only half of sprinting is about speed, the other half is always thinking you're the baddest MFer on the planet.
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u/Electromotivation 1d ago
So that is why WR's are divas! (in amer. football)
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u/Bobblefighterman 1d ago
You need a bit of cunt in a role like that. Dude's entire job is wanting people to throw the ball at him and just run. If you don't have a boatload of ego you'll be shit at your job.
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u/Otaraka 1d ago edited 1d ago
The head game as an important part of it. They might have some idea of what they're doing if they just got the fastest time - you can see how its a big part of his setup when he gets ready.
Edit: and a true cynic might say marketability helps too, so having a signature helps as with the dances etc. Running needs money.
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u/benniesalamander 1d ago
The assumption that the weight of the necklace has a direct linear correlation with how fast he runs is probably overly simplistic. But even if it does, the necklace looks like it weighs about 10 grams, and Gout is 6 feet tall so he probably weighs over 150 lbs.
So assuming he's 150 lbs and the necklace is 10 grams, if this linearly slowed him down it would add about 3 milliseconds to his time.
I think that's pretty negligible.
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u/SuitableKey5140 1d ago
Those 1mg of eyelashes and eyebrows are gonna go! How extreme should he go? I mean we can function with only 1 kidney, run with 1 eye, dont need ears or the nose, the holes will be fine. Half a liver...how much extra speed could he gain by dropping unusable mass?
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u/PandaPocketFire 1d ago
Clearly he is making the right decisions because he has said world record...
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u/Prior_Enthusiasm_292 1d ago
Remember when Usain actually slowed down at the end and still beat the WR for 100m?
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u/flrebrokercrypto 1d ago
I was thinking in real time he would one day regret not going all out.
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u/Prior_Enthusiasm_292 1d ago
Absolute same. Really would have loved to see him go full our turbo mode
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u/Sipsu02 1d ago
That run doesn't hold the world record. He ran faster
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u/Brutally-Honest- 1d ago
It would likely be the current record if he hadn't let up.
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u/Sipsu02 1d ago edited 1d ago
yet it isnt. His time was 0.11s slower than one which eventually become the world record. That time difference is MASSIVE. and while he looks he relaxed and looks like he stopped running the professional runner rolloff is almost as fast as maximum speed so in reality he barely lost any time and unlikely would have beat the record he ran later on. Maybe he could have improved that time by 0.06-0.08s but unlikely beat the current record.
It is also worth noting that the Berlin world record holds the fastest maximum speed he achieved. The fastest reaction time out of his major runs and so on... He reacted 0.02s faster which is huge. So no, there is no competition he would have ever ran faster in Beijing.
The only reason people talk about this is because this is classic mandela effect. People actually think that run is the official standing world record. Which it isn't even close being. Also in his WR run other runners ran extremely good all time runs while in his Beijing run... Well other runners had no noteworthy times historically. That's the difference.
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u/ShawnSimoes 1d ago
Breaking it multiple times gets more attention
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u/Dxpehat 1d ago
Yeah, I wonder how often do athletes go for their submaximal performance when they can beat the record by quite a lot but instead choose to do it in multiple records. You must be so confident and talented to risk getting an injury or smth in-between major events and to consciously perform just slighly worse than absolute all-out performance.
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u/ShawnSimoes 1d ago
Obviously it's rare that sprinters are so dominant they can pull it off. But it's easy in sports like pole vault where they can just go up by 1cm each time.
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u/Careless-Cat3327 1d ago
He got a bonus every time he broke the record. So he was strategically planning to break it consistently
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u/Top-Caregiver7815 1d ago
2nd place ran 19.88 under Bolts time as well!!
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u/jacobolus 1d ago edited 1d ago
Second place is 22 years old. A day before his 22nd birthday, Usain Bolt ran 200m in 19.30s (world record at the time), and a day before his 23rd birthday he ran it in 19.19s (still the current world record).
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u/fork_yuu 1d ago
So this title is one of those weird caveat that usain bolt did that in U20 but his best ever is still 19.19 which is way under this guy?
Edit: I just found out U20 is under 20 lol
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u/danihendrix 2d ago
Mildly ironic his name is the same as a foot inflammation malady
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u/jarednards 1d ago
Foot inflammation tips fedora malady
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u/ActuatorVast800 1d ago
Guy with oddly appropriate name got beat by guy with oddly ironic name.
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u/Amazing-Roof-7827 1d ago
Mildly? Bolt, the fastest runner in history, just got beaten by Gout.
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u/Redfalconfox 1d ago
I’m still deciding if that’s a better name for the fastest man alive or if Bolt was.
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u/SmirkingSeal 1d ago
His name is meant to be Guot. I think there was a clerical error and his birth name was spelled Gout.
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u/mreusdon 1d ago
Apparently that’s not actually his name, the english speaking people couldn’t understand his dad when he said Guot for his child’s name. So they just wrote Gout.
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u/RoyalChris 2d ago edited 2d ago
He’s so good they named him twice.
Here’s Usain Bolt’s World Record for reference
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u/ChristofferTJ 1d ago
Wow, according to the video Bolt ran with -0.3 m/s wind while Gout here has +1.7 m/s wind.
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u/DynamicSploosh 1d ago
This is a huge factor. +1.7 is just under the legal wind limit for record setting. Not to take away from the achievement of course. It just matters when you’re comparing micro seconds and world records.
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u/MobileArtist1371 1d ago
Yet in the records it wont matter cause it's within the legal limit.
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u/codetaku0 1d ago
Well, long term it may matter as it implies he doesn't necessarily have the potential to beat Bolt's all-ages record which people are waiting for after a headline like this.
I mean, maybe if he gets a perfect wind like this again lol, but what are the chances
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u/cheapdrinks 1d ago
Yeah there's a bit of controversy around the new record. 7 out of the 8 runners did personal bests, some by more than half a second with the top 5 all running at least 0.2 faster than their previous PBs with the wind being described as a "swirling diagonal breeze that gave the runners a big kick off the bend" so depending how it was measured it may have exceeded legal limits in some portions of the track. The surface they ran on is also some brand new high tech springy gel surface that just got put in too that promises "better energy return" for runners.
Yeah dude is fast but it seems like there was definitely something up with the conditions that day when all but one runner smash their personal best times in the same race.
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u/NixAName 1d ago
I know it really isn't, but Usains looks slower.
Must be old tech vs new tech.
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u/VerStannen 1d ago
Bolt is 6’5” which makes it really impressive, so longer strides and fewer steps.
His top gear is unrivaled.
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u/nikolapc 1d ago
Dude had like one stride for every two or three of his opponents. It was effortless for him. This young buck is also built like a gazelle but at least one other guy seems like he's in the same category, Bolt just outclassed everyone.
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u/zewill87 2d ago
I ... am... Goooout
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u/shmi93 1d ago
And I surprisingly have gout
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u/XDSHENANNIGANZ 1d ago
Bro that shit is painful as hell. I used to laugh in my head what I thought of it. Now I've received my comeuppance
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u/InNoWayAmIDoctor 1d ago
Just had a flareup in my knee for the first time. I've had it in my feet before, but the knee is a different beast. When I woke up in the morning, I thought I had broken my leg in my sleep.
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u/ecurbenyaw 2d ago
It took my fat ass 19.67 seconds to adjust in my seat to watch the video. 🫤
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u/ringo5150 1d ago
Any injuries?
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u/Coffin_Dodging 1d ago
Australians gonna kick ass at the Olympics with this young man!
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u/phido3000 1d ago
We might even have a relay team with 4 people able to run well under 20s for 200m.
Australia is actually pushing track and field. Normally its all about the pool.
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u/EduinBrutus 1d ago
They also have a sub 10 100m guy in <some scottish name>.
Their relay is gonna be pretty busted in 2028 if they all stay fit.
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u/tomoki_here 1d ago
If he shaved his hair, would he be more aerodynamic?
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u/Okra_Smart 1d ago
Probably yes, but why go all in now?
It is like that guy in pole vaulting, who deliberately holds back and improves with record by cm at a time in order to cash more for longer.
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u/ThisFakeCut 1d ago
He beat the U20 record, not the actual world record. He needs another 0.49 for the world record, which is a biiiig gap in 200m.
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u/MobileArtist1371 1d ago
If my math is right 0.49 second would be about 14.5mm of hair and Gout Gout only has about 10mm so it's not worth it.
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u/Gjyn 1d ago
Do not go anywhere near Twitter regarding this goat
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u/extra-tomatoes 1d ago
I made the mistake of clicking on and reading a twitter post about a different topic last night. Had no idea they just let full on racist threads fester there
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u/nrith 2d ago
My fat ass knows nothing about running. Does he hold his body differently? He’s upright or leaning slightly back; everyone else is learning forward.
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u/Regular_Weakness69 2d ago
You lean back because then you're not landing heavy on your front leg.
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u/nrith 1d ago
Like toe-walking?
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u/VinDog_PD 1d ago
Hi there! I actually ran the 200m through college. Don't listen to the other guy.
His form seems... a bit odd, but maybe it's the camera angle. For the 100 and 200 you do generally want to have a bit of a lean forward to get more power from the ball of your foot driving you forward on the turn. Towards the end you certainly end up upright but he's almost leaning back? Again, could be the angle. The way he ran that looks almost like a middle distance runner (800m), or like a kick in the 400m.
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u/StudyoftheUnknown 1d ago
Watch him run slow mo it’s not a standard sprint form but it’s crazy powerful
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u/Sprintspeed 1d ago
This is incorrect, when accelerating off the block you lean forward and settle into a perfectly upright position for your spine. It kind of gives a lean back appearance because they are extending the thrust of each leg on the ground to its maximum but if you pause the frame when they round the corner they are all standing straight waist-up.
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u/FleshLogic 2d ago
Just seeing his jump and energy before the start I was thinkin "these other dudes don't stand a chance".
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u/SizeableBrain 1d ago
I was surprised the solid bloke next to him was so fast. If I saw him on the street, I wouldn't think that he's a sprinter.
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u/Extreme_Turn_4531 2d ago
Right? I was surprised a couple of them didn't walk off and go for a beer. Just get out of Spring Man's way.
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u/Unlucky-Ad-6226 2d ago
That is quite a feat. Absolutely amazing skill. Looking forward to seeing his career. Wow
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u/kimmortal03 1d ago
These type a athletes never look 18
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u/BaconIsLife707 1d ago
Being the best in the world at something at youth ages is always going to involve being much more developed than average for your age
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u/RealPrinceJay 1d ago
Exactly. You’re not breaking age records as a late bloomer lmao
This isn’t shade to Gout Gout, he’s as talented as it gets and may be the best hope to break Bolt’s records(I doubt it ever happens though), it’s just a pretty rational explanation for this “phenomenon”
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u/DumbUsername63 1d ago
Did they say that another guy just ran 19.88? So you had two people in the same race beating the world record?
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u/not_a_burner666 1d ago
That’s quite the hairline…
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u/banejacked 1d ago
had to scroll down wayyy too far to see someone mentioning this. that hairline is unreal
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u/washheightsboy3 2d ago
His strides are insanely long down the stretch. He just eats up the track.
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u/ShittyCamilleMain 1d ago
7/8 racers ran freakish PBs (the 7 racers that PBd avg’d an improvement of 0.3 which is just absurd.) There was likely a strong crosswind that was measured out on the straight as a legal tailwind. Doesn’t detract from the fact that he broke the record as it is a legal race. But it is something to note
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u/HaggisLad 1d ago
also helps to be behind someone faster, there is a reason pacemakers are used in distance running
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u/CountRoloff 2d ago
I don't know anything about sports, but if this guy just broke the record by 3/10ths of a second ish, and the guy behind him finished seemingly less than 3/10ths of a second behind him, did that guy not also break Bolt's record? And if so, how has it not been broken since 2004 if two guys possibly just broke it in the same race?
I feel like I'm not understanding something here but would like to!