Australian prodigy Gout Gout is a “rare talent”, says Sebastian Coe

By completing a 200 m in 20”04, the teenager, born to parents from South Sudan, erased from the shelves, at the beginning of December, the old national record of Peter Norman (20”06) established during the final of the Olympic Games in Mexico in 1968 (Norman won the silver medal there between the Americans Tommie Smith, gold medalist, and John Carlos, bronze).