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The Guardian // Sport

‘Your social life will be non-existent’: Gout Gout coach Di Sheppard on guiding the sprint sensation | Jack Snape

Wednesday 30th April 2025, 3:00PM

The Australian athletics outsider has overcome adversity and backed her own methods to find success as a mentor to a stable of rising starsAs Gout Gout has bounded up the steps towards the summit of Australian athletics, never far away has been his coach Di Sheppard. Their journeys, however, could not be more different.The teenager has arrived in the blink of an eye. The son of South Sudanese immigrants, the Ipswich Grammar student is already a global track star and national 200m champion at 17, and has run faster than Usain Bolt at the same age. Continue reading...

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