Athletics-Genie out of the bottle for Gout after breakthrough nationals


MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Stubborn tailwinds may have denied Gout Gout official times at Australia's athletics championships but they did nothing to blow away the hype surrounding the 17-year-old sprinter after his watershed meet.

The Queensland schoolboy claimed his first national title in the 200 metres in a wind-assisted 19.84 seconds in Perth on Sunday, days after clocking 9.99 in the 100 of the under-20 event with another illegal wind.

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