{"id":76824,"date":"2025-04-25T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/?p=76824"},"modified":"2025-04-25T10:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:02:33","slug":"we-warn-the-tsar-a-column-by-len-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runnerstribe.com\/features\/we-warn-the-tsar-a-column-by-len-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"We warn the Tsar . . .\u00a0| A column by Len Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"

He was cheered on to the track each time he entered. Careered around the outer fence high-fiving young kids and a surprising number of older folk after each race, even though, metaphorically at least, he was borne out of the arena on his shield. Results were immaterial: he was the king of Central Park.<\/span><\/p>\n

Who? Gout Gout, that\u2019s who. The 17-year-old from Ipswich in Queensland has been the talk of the Stawell Gift since the moment it was announced he would be running between the lane ropes up the 120-metre the grass straight in Australia\u2019s best-known, if not necessarily best, sprint race. In between announcement and arrival Gout kept the pot boiling with a (windy) sub-20 seconds 200 at the Queensland state titles and then a 19.84 (also windy) to win the national senior title and sub-10-second 100s (need we add windy, AGAIN!) in winning the U20 title in the short sprint.<\/span><\/p>\n

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