Erin Brown, an American sprinter, has called Gout Gout’s record-breaking 200-meter triumph “as fake as it comes” and questioned its validity.
Australian sprint star Gout Gout left the Sydney Olympic Park on Sunday afternoon, adding a new world-under-20 record to his already impressive resume.
Recall that with a permitted +1.7-meter-per-second tailwind, the 18-year-old from Brisbane became the first Australian to breach the 20-second mark at 200 meters, clocking in at 19.67 seconds.
Brown had previously criticized Gout for “only racing against bums., and he claimed that Gout’s record was “fake” since it was recorded with an unlawful tailwind.
“I’m not gonna lie, you all had me for a second,” Brown said on TikTok. “I thought we really witnessed something special. I pick up my phone and a million people text me saying, ‘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, your ass is coping, because you and you wanna be different. This is clearly fake. Obviously, overtly, this is as fake as it comes.”
“So Gout Gout, who ran 20.4 in his last race, shows up and runs 19.6,” Brown continued.
“Aidan Murphy in second. A guy whose PR is 20.4, shows up and runs 19.8. Calab Law, a guy who’s ran 20.7 this year, shows up and runs 20.2.
“So, if you just see the pattern of the top three, it seems like everybody is running pretty much half a second faster than they’ve ever ran.
“And if you skip all the way to the bottom with just Archer [McHugh], 20.3, and this is a guy who broke 21 seconds for the first time like two weeks ago, 20.8, then he shows up and runs a half second faster.
“So, everybody in a race runs a half second faster than they’ve ever ran? But the race is real and the time is real.”
“Australia keeps producing some of the fakest marks that we ever see, and y’all gas it up every time, and then these people go get they ass stepped on,” added Brown.
Thanks to his record-breaking performance at the Australian Athletics Championships, Gout is quicker than Usain Bolt at the same age.
ENigeria Newspaper can confirm that Gout ran a sub-20 second race prior to the event, but his time was deemed unlawful since the wind speed was higher than what World Athletics considered permissible.
In contrast, this attempt was declared valid when the race was finished with a wind speed of -1.7 m/s (a tailwind is considered illegal if it surpasses an average velocity of +2.0 m/s).
Relevant authorities have not responded to Brown’s claims as at the time of filing this report.
