Usain Bolt Warns ‘very Talented’ Gout Gout About Step Up To Seniors Ahead Of Worlds

Usain Bolt has warned Australian schoolboy sprint sensation Gout Gout that translating teenage talent into world and Olympic titles is simply a reliable process.

Gout has earned comparisons pinch nan Jamaican sprinting awesome aft a drawstring of accelerated times complete nan past year, and immoderate successful Australia person already installed him arsenic favourite to triumph golden connected location ungraded astatine nan 2032 Brisbane Olympics.

Bolt said location was nary uncertainty nan 17-year-old, who will make his world championships debut successful nan 200m successful Tokyo adjacent week, had talent, but that was not enough.

“If he continues connected this way it’s going to beryllium bully but it’s each astir getting everything right. I mean, it’s ne'er conscionable easy,” he said successful Tokyo connected Thursday.

“It’s ever easier erstwhile you’re younger because I was there, I utilized to do awesome things erstwhile I was young but nan modulation to elder from inferior is ever tougher.

“It’s each astir if you get nan correct coach, nan correct group astir you, if you’re focused enough, truthful location will beryllium a batch of factors to find if he’s going to beryllium great, and if he’s going to proceed connected nan aforesaid trajectory to a title aliases Olympics.”

Despite besides mounting property group records arsenic a youngster, Bolt did not really make an effect connected a world standard until he was 22, erstwhile he collapsed nan 100m world grounds doubly and won nan sprint double astatine nan Beijing Olympics.

He retired arsenic nan sport’s biggest prima successful 2017 pinch 8 Olympic and 11 world championships golden medals successful his trophy cabinet.

The 39-year-old said he would ever invited caller talent for illustration Gout breaking done successful nan athletics that he loved.

“He’s very talented, pinch nan times he’s moving now and he’s really been doing well,” he added.

“That’s thing that you emotion to spot because you want athletes to do well. The much athletes do well, nan bigger nan athletics is, and I’m ever a protagonist of way and section getting bigger and doing bigger things.”