‘Your social life will be non-existent’: Gout Gout coach Di Sheppard on guiding the sprint sensation | Jack Snape
The Australian athletics outsider has overcome adversity and backed her own methods to find success as a mentor to a stable of rising stars
As Gout Gout has bounded up the steps towards the summit of Australian athletics, never far away has been his coach Di Sheppard. Their journeys, however, could not be more different.
The teenager has arrived in the blink of an eye. The son of South Sudanese immigrants, the Ipswich Grammar student is already a global track star and national 200m champion at 17, and has run faster than Usain Bolt at the same age.