Summer Olympic Sports in between Olympics thread.

[AdelaideGT]

Gout might run a race or two in Queensland interclub over coming weeks but his next major comp will be at the National All-Schools (6-8 Dec).

They will be held at his home-track - QSAC in Brisbane - so he won't need to travel interstate until maybe mid-February. So hopefully he can have a decent block of training without any media pressure during that time.

 

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Those fast twitch fibres, wowweeee. The boy can run.

As a nation, we have often been outclassed in sprinting by the Americas (USA, Jamaica, Canada, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, etc) but with Australia being such an amazing, welcoming country, I can't see why we can't be super competitive in sprinting events for years to come. Gout Gout could be the first of many.

I'm not sure how it compares to other nations around the world, but Australia seems to be a first choice for many citizens of war torn countries to escape the brutality of war to migrate to Australia. Citizens of some of these nations (like South Sudan where Gout Gout's heritage lies) are genetically built differently. You only have to look at the record books to understand that historically the quickest runners in the world aren't white. Christophe Lemaitre became the first white person to run a sub 10 second 100m which was considered a monumental achievement at the time.

The most recent census recorded that 86% of Australian citizens are white so statistically we're still a while off until we consistently challenge the Americas, but I'd expect that number to shorten significantly over the next 50 years because we are a very attractive option for citizens from wore torn countries to migrate to. This obviously increases our population and we already know how well we do in the Olympics when you consider we don't even have one tenth of the population of USA.

Watch this space, over the next 10-20 years we'll have multiple athletes running sub 10 seconds for the 100m and we'll become one of the stronger nations in this event. Exciting times ahead.

 

[AdelaideGT]

As a nation, we have often been outclassed in sprinting by the Americas (USA, Jamaica, Canada, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, etc) but with Australia being such an amazing, welcoming country, I can't see why we can't be super competitive in sprinting events for years to come. Gout Gout could be the first of many.

Those places had the benefit of African genetics being imported - mainly as slaves -since before Australia even saw white people arrive.

 

[X_box_X]

Those places had the benefit of African genetics being imported - mainly as slaves -since before Australia even saw white people arrive.

Yeah I know, genetically we're years behind competing in events that require fast twitch muscle fibres but I think we'll become more competitive over the next 10-20 years.