- Erin Brown ‘predicted’ Gout Gout would struggle in Tokyo
An American sprinter has blasted Gout Gout for continually racing ‘white nobodies and bums’ in Australia – before savaging the teenager’s performances at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
Erin Brown, 22, who represents Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona, heavily criticised the Ipswich Grammar student in a TikTok clip.
It was puzzling given Brown’s personal best over 200m is 20.55, compared to Gout’s 20.02 recorded at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, Czechia back in June.
After Gout Gout finished fourth in his semi-final in Tokyo, Brown offered some blunt advice.
‘The next Usain Bolt got brutally destroyed at the world championships,’ Brown began.
‘Gout Gout, the 17-year-old from Australia who turns 18 in about two months, went out there and got embarrassed.
US college sprinter Erin Brown (pictured) has blasted Gout Gout for continually racing ‘little white kids’ in Australia
Brown also savaged the teenager’s performances at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in the 200m, where he qualified for the semi-finals
‘You are a professional athlete now… you running (against) those little white kids in Australia running 22 seconds (over 200m).
‘It’s easy to run fast against nobody. Your body is relaxed, it’s easy to maintain your posture and your form because you’re not under pressure.
‘He’s never been in a race where it’s been close and he’s had people in front of him.
‘He only races bums.’
Brown has clearly been keeping tabs on Gout given he went on to reference the teenage sensation losing to fellow sprinter Lachlan Kennedy earlier this year.
‘There’s literally professionals in Australia who run around the same time and he doesn’t even race them,’ he continued.
‘He raced Lachlan Kennedy one time and Lachlan Kennedy beat him.
‘My advice to bro now is you’re a pro now. All that kid s**t is out the window.
‘Sure, you’re still in school or whatever, but you need to go race your peers – people who get paid to run because the intensity is different.’
Brown’s comments on TikTok were puzzling given his personal best over 200m is 20.55, compared to Gout’s 20.02 recorded at the Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava, Czechia in June
US superstar Noah Lyles, who won gold in the 100m at the Paris Olympics, carries a different opinion to Brown.
‘He’s more talented (at 17) than I was,’ he said.
‘Gout’s an amazing kid. He’s got a great head on him, a great team around him
‘It’s going to be interesting to see how he develops.’
Gout and his coach Di Sheppard are on the same page as Lyles, who at 28 is at the height of his physical powers.
‘The biggest eye-opener is knowing that I can compete at a young age against the best men in the world,’ Gout said.
‘It definitely makes me hungry, knowing that I’m just a kid right now, but knowing that I can compete.
‘The thing I have on them is time. They may not have 15 years – but I’ve got 15 years.
‘I know that if I can do this at 17, then I can do this at 25 and I’ll be even better at 25.’
