- Actual name is Guot, correctly pronounced ‘Gwot’
- Track star’s father Bona is annoyed at continual error
- Gout’s manager James Templeton on different page
The manager of Aussie sprint sensation Gout Gout has bizarrely declared the incorrect way to say the teenager’s name is here to stay.
It comes despite Gout’s father Bona recently confirming his son’s name is Guot, and is pronounced ‘Gwot’.
‘Firstly, it is Gout Gout,’ James Templeton told SEN Radio.
‘Yeah, yeah, I know there’s been a bit of discussion, and I know his dad made a few comments, but Gout Gout is how it’s gonna be.
‘Categorically, it’s Gout Gout. You know, the thing you hope to avoid in your ankle.
‘That’s how it’s pronounced.’
James Templeton (left) – the manager of Aussie sprint sensation Gout Gout – has bizarrely declared the incorrect way to say the teenager’s name is here to stay
It comes despite Gout’s father Bona (pictured, in white shirt) recently confirming his son’s name is Guot, and is pronounced ‘Gwot’
James Templeton told SEN: ‘Categorically, it’s Gout Gout. You know, the thing you hope to avoid in your ankle’
Bona Guot is adamant the current pronunciation of his son was ‘not acceptable’.
‘His name is Guot, it’s supposed to be Guot,’ he stated. ‘When I see people called him Gout Gout, I’m not really happy for him.
‘I know that Gout Gout is a disease name but I don’t want my son to be called a disease name…..it’s something that’s not acceptable.’
Daily Mail Australia understands an Arabic translation error by the Sudanese government as the family migrated to Egypt is the reason for the error.
The mishap also unfolded before Gout was born in Australia.
The Ipswich product has set the athletics world alight with his lightning speed, producing the fastest 200m ever run by a 16-year-old.
His recent time of 20.04 at the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships in Brisbane makes him the sixth-fastest athlete in the world under the age of 20.
Gout also clocked a sizzling 10.04 in his 100m heat – and went onto win the final.
Meanwhile, Athletics Australia president Jane Flemming has stated the sporting organisation will look to ‘temper’ the hype surrounding teenage sprint sensation Gout.
Flemming – who won gold medals in heptathlon and long jump at the Commonwealth Games – stressed expectations shouldn’t reach manic levels.
Gout recently smashed a 56-year Australian record to become the fastest 16-year-old in the world over 200m at the Australian All Schools Athletics Championships
Former track star turned TV identity Matt Shirvington has been blown away, suggesting the prodigy has more potential than Olympic legend Usain Bolt
‘You can imagine at the moment he’s going to have every sporting code, every agent, every commercial entity, they’ll all be chasing him and he hasn’t even finished year 11,’ she told 2GB’s Wide World of Sports.
‘Part of our responsibility as an organisation is to make sure the young man gets to his 30’s in good physical and mental shape so we need to try and temper it…..make sure he gets back to school, hangs out with his mates, has a good time with it all, while still progressing him on the way through.
‘It’s a long road. Rightly so he’ll probably make next year’s world championships and then Olympic Games and another Olympics and maybe another Olympics after that.’
Flemming added Athletics Australia want to see Gout ‘have a long and fruitful career’ – and the young gun is fortunate to have a ‘fantastic coach in Di Sheppard.’
Formertrack star turned TV identity Matt Shirvington has been blown away, suggesting the prodigy has more potential than Olympic legend Usain Bolt.
And even Bolt himself has been impressed, stating Gout ‘looks like me at the same age.’