Gout Gout's six-word 'champion' phone message sums him up after Usain Bolt claim

Australian sprinting sensation Gout Gout has his eyes set on Olympic gold, and he's got the daily motivation to match it right on his phone's wallpaper. Since the tender age of 15, the teenager has been smashing Australian records and notched a scintillating 19.98 seconds in the 200 meters at the Queensland Athletics Championships in March.

In April, he topped that achievement by claiming the Australian 200m title, although unfortunately, wind conditions invalidated both sub-20-second performances for record purposes. Gout showcased his remarkable progress the same month by breaking the 10-second barrier in the 100m, but again, a helping wind meant the time wouldn't stand officially. The young prodigy's swift ascent has garnered worldwide attention and sparked conversations about future Olympic success.

With the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles on the horizon, Gout is setting his sights not just on qualifying but on battling it out with the planet's elite for a spot on the podium.

Looking further ahead to the 2032 Games set to take place in his home country, Australia, the message that greets him each day on his phone is a constant source of inspiration. In an interview with GQ, Gout disclosed that his phone's wallpaper is blank apart from a six-word mantra: "You're going to be Olympic champion."

Noah Lyles clinched the Olympic gold with a 9.79 performance in the 2024 event, and with Gout's trajectory showing no signs of levelling off and an additional three years to prepare for the LA 2028, when he will be just 20 years old, expectations are sky-high. Ambitious sprinter Gout has his sights set on Olympic glory and dreams of dominating the track much like the legendary Usain Bolt, the unassailable world record holder for the 100m and 200m events.

"I think the limit is just obviously winning the Olympics and winning world championships and honestly dominating like Bolt did," Gout expressed to FOX Sports Australia. "I think that limit is reachable for me. The times I've run so far could potentially make it into [Olympic] finals, make the top four, top five, top six. Just getting better and aiming for LA obviously would be a great achievement.

"[Just] trying to be on that podium running against [Letsile] Tebogo, Noah [Lyles], [Lachlan] Kennedy, all them athletes. That's definitely a goal of mine and to keep aiming for the top."

However, Gout's coach, Di Sheppard, cautions that achieving such heights will come at a cost, including a significant reduction in social activities.

"I've been telling him for a couple of years that when we get to a set point, your social life will be pretty much non-existent, in the sense you just can't go out where you want," she told The Guardian. "He's at that point pretty much now, which is kind of tough when you think he's still at school. Things will plateau, that's a natural part.

"It has to come to a 'Bang, OK, now we've got to find our next adaptation phase to go up.' For us to go to the top - we're still a long way from there - and because we know that's our end goal, we don't get too wrapped up in the good things that come. They're stepping stones, and that's how I've tried to teach Gout. There's no clear path up."