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