The Aussie with flying feet: Gout Gout is 18 and seriously fast

If you had to weigh the greatest labels of sport, you might say “Wimbledon champion” owns a historic heft and “heavyweight boxing champion” has a menacing eminence and yet none has the enduring cool of “fastest human on the planet”.

This isn’t three hours of tennis or 12 rounds of fisticuffs, just a gunshot at one end and a camera which takes 40,000 digital images per second at the other. In between life is lived at a blur across 100m or 200m.