Olympic champion warns Gout Gout about training with ‘hungry’ senior superstars
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Gout Gout has been told he can 'be one of the best' if he follows the advice of an Olympic champion.
The record-breaking teenage sprinting sensation will appear alongside 200m gold medallist Letsile Tebogo this weekend.
Gout and Tebogo are both expected to feature at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne.
The event is part of the World Athletics Continental Tour, which has now arrived in Gout's native Australia.
Ahead of the meet, Tebogo has given his thoughts on the 17-year-old prospect.
He told reporters: "His style of running, it’s top notch. I believe he’s going to be the next big thing for the continent."
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The 21-year-old continued: "He can be one of the best, he can be in the history books. If he continues the hunger that he has right now, he could go very far."
Tebogo stunned Noah Lyles to win 200m gold at last summer's Paris Olympics with an African record time of 19.46secs.
Having edged out the American duo of Kenneth Bednarek and Lyles, he added silver as part of the Botswana quartet in the 4x400m.
However, Tebogo was beaten in the 100m, though, with his national record time only enough to finish sixth as Lyles claimed gold.
Gout himself has been invited to train with the Team USA star, but Tebogo has given his own advice to the track and field phenom.
He explained: "The best advice I was told was that Rome wasn’t built in a day. I couldn’t get the concept at first.
"Just introduce him slowly to the seniors… because with the seniors we are all hungry to get the money, the medals and everything."
The advice comes after Gout admitted comparisons to Usain Bolt have become 'overwhelming'.
"My dream is I want to be one of the best track and field athletes Australia has ever seen.
"I want to go to the '28 Olympics in LA. I want to go to the Brisbane Olympics. And I just want to show the world that I’m Gout and how I’m here to stay and the Olympics is the best place to do that."
Gout would still only be 20-years-old at the next Games in Los Angeles, a year younger than Bolt was when he won his first gold in Beijing in 2008.