Another Gout Gout video, another predictable attack by American sprinter Erin Brown.
Brown, who ranks 1050th in the men’s 200m discipline according to World Athletics, this time took aim at a video of a block start featuring Gout and Noah Lyles.
The Adidas stablemates have been training together ahead of their 150m clash in Czechia next month.
Brown has used the footage to once again claim that the 18-year-old, who has taken the world by storm, is not at the level many believe he is.
In a tweet in response to the video, Brown wrote: ‘Mind you, this is the guy who was dead last to 40m in the Olympics in the 100 vs the next Usain Bolt lol,’ attempting to mock Gout’s start.
It is worth noting, however, that the man who was ‘dead last to 40m in the Olympics’ actually claimed gold in the 100m at said Games.
Erin Brown has once again taken to social media to launch an attack over Gout Gout, this time over a clip of Gout and Noah Lyles working through a block start
He also took to Twitter to further his point about Gout Gout
Gout set an under-20s world record with his time of 19.67 and also beat the best mark Usain Bolt set when he was an 18-year-old
Lyles has continually praised the young sprinter, recently describing the pair as a ‘cheat code of a tag team’ on Instagram.
But Brown, who appears to have taken exception to the comparisons Gout has received to Usain Bolt, took a second swipe at Gout on Twitter, ‘This whole time you all have been comparing Gout Gout to the wrong person.
‘He has no similarities to Usain Bolt: race style, knowledge, coaching, being surrounded by other talented black athletes, no major improvement in the three seasons of him being pro, no major improvement in his race pattern. He’s the next Joseph Fahnbulleh, which is still a good thing for him.’
Many in the replies on Twitter called the comparison disrespectful, ‘Comparing any track athlete to Fraudbulleh is the biggest insult you can hurl at them…’
Not content with the other attacks, Brown also doubled down saying Gout’s ceiling was nowhere near what most would expect of him
It’s not the first time Brown (pictured right) has launched an attack on the Queenslander
Pictured: American sprinter Erin Brown in a grab from a TikTok video in which he claims Gout Gout’s world record 200m run was fake
Brown, undeterred, continued his verbal attacks on Gout across other platforms, ‘I hate to be that guy, but Gout Gout’s a** is about to be rolled, he’s about to be rolled,’ he said on TikTok.
‘He’s doing starts with Noah. Now mind you, Adidas got them meeting up, press and all that, you know how they did the same thing last year.
‘Do a little rep at practice and make it seem like y’all are training together for the internet to control certain narratives.
‘But Gout Gout, I’m looking at him trying his hardest, and I’m looking at Noah putting no effort in, going through the motions, working on technique, and he’s still behind.
‘I’m thinking Noah is probably one of the worst starters we’ve ever seen, especially when he’s not in race shape.
‘Now he has a fast 60 [personal best] but that’s after a long indoor season, training hard.
‘He didn’t do that this year, he hasn’t run any 100s this year and he looks really heavy right now.
‘And after the World Championships or the Olympics, IShowSpeed raced Noah and even beat him to 30 metres.
‘So if Gout Gout is behind Noah at 10, 20, 30 metres—and Noah won the Olympics but was dead last to 40, 45, 50 metres—if you’re behind bro and you don’t have a better top end, then, hey man, you can believe what you want, but this s**t is going to crash and burn.’
This is just the latest in Brown’s attacks on Gout Gout after he claimed the Aussie’s record-setting 200m time was a lie.
In that TikTok video, he said, ‘I thought we really witnessed something special … a million people texted me: ‘Man, Gout Gout just ran 19.6.’ That made me inclined to go check the results.
‘Not gonna lie, and if you say this s**t is hating, you’re coping, because you want to be different.
‘This s**t is clearly fake. Obviously, overtly, this is as fake as it comes.’
It is worth noting that while Brown has spent the past couple of months criticising Gout over the Bolt comparisons, Bolt himself said the young star ‘looks like young me’.
Gout will have another chance to silence the doubters when he takes on Lyles in the 150m in Ostrava next mont, before competing at the U20 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon later this year.
