by Gicht Gicht stood near his blocks, and 10,000 fans – just a few moments before. The law was a collective show of respect, recognition that they were in the presence of size. “It’s so quiet,” you whispered.
They didn’t have to be told, this fair, which had packed in the Lakeside Stadium on Saturday, how happy they were. From a loud evening with convincing athletics field, the moment before the 200 -M race, the night increased in something more important. “The silence was loud,” said Gicht afterwards.
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This calm contained an Olympic final. Unrested and committed to 20 seconds to 20, then for one minute. “This is so stressful,” murmured another viewer.
They had to caught for the triple jumper of men in the middle. Shortly before the headliners of the evening started there, they were only a few steps away and started their cords. “You could hear a pin truck, and even the triple jump they hear the steps,” said Gicht.
Family and friends near the pit offered the two or three who dared to break the magic, a bit of applause. But around the rest of the stadium, the only sound was wiping to unlock phones. If they were not already increased in the air, silence only encouraged to reach for their pockets. Gout described the moment as “definitely surreal”.
Ruining the S-word is one of the great travesties of sport. Most athletes turn in a mixture of self -stirdik and a zeal to meet the traditional component of the back in response to the traditional building block, the question: “How does it feel?” But Gicht use was one of these few occasions in which the term might be suitable.
Surreal has a character of the bizarre, imagination, absurd. This 17-year-old ran 200 m faster than any other Australian in front of him, with a gear like a bike. He promises to have the hopes of a nation in seven years for a home game of the Olympic Games and to anchor the trust of the same nation in multiculturalism. He is Adidas’ golden ticket and has already earned millions of dollars for athletics Australia. The third of seven children from South Sudanese migrants Bona and Monica carried out their high school exams this week. The same boy on Saturday was fascinated by an entire stadium.
Three hundred words in this piece and it could mention the man who actually won the race. Lachie “not Lachlan because I think the mom is angry with me” Kennedy is the bio-mechanical opposite of gout. The 21-year-old runs quickly from the blocks like the T-1000. But while John Connor’s arch enemy was sent back into the past, Kennedy races through the athletics history.
Four weeks ago, he was the same at the most third -party over 100 m. Last week he won the first World Indoor 60 -M medal in the country, a silver in China. The race on Saturday made him the fifth fastest Australian over 200 m. From December, his 20.26 seconds will only be 0.22 seconds before the national record of Gicht and was carried out at a meeting that was characterized by symptoms of athletes of wind, cold and slow conditions.
Kennedy said last week in his self -confident, happy way that gout brought new fans to athletics, to the advantages of all athletes. But there is no doubt that without his fellow colleague Queenslander, much more ink would be written about the former wing player of the Rugby Union.
He grinned when he said that it was doing the night of some participants who came to set the teenager another record.
Few could argue with him. Three hours of athletics, with many medalists from Australia’s record campaigns at the Olympic Games in Paris and the Peru World Underer 20 championships, culminated in the last few meters of 200 m. Record books were wiped out.
When the finish line approached, the Loping Pistons of the Man Usain Bolt describes as a “young I” or “G-Man”, as Kennedy called him down on Saturday. But Skynets Marvel stretched his big neck over the line to secure his highest victory.
The drama was transferred live on the main channel by Channel Seven to Sydney and Melbourne to even more evidence of the increased stature of athletics, and the enthusiasm of theirs underlined the great potential of sport.
After that, Gicht made with the amount along the fence that had risen in size and was now four phones deep, many sang “gout, gout, gout”. Even the cool coach of the teenager, Di Sheppard, admitted that attention was a surprise on Saturday. “I was a bit, almost – not overwhelmed – but a little surprised,” she said.
At the end of his suffocating media scores, Gicht was asked if he still feels normal. “Life is never normal,” he replied. “You have the ups and downs, you have the halos, you have the rocks, you have the sand, you have the fire. So it’s definitely not normal, but it is something that I can get used to and what I can handle it.”
