Ian said:

Michael V said:

Ian said:

Teenage sprint phenomenon Gout Gout has smashed his own national 200m record and become the first Australian to break the 20-second barrier in legal conditions as he sprinted to victory in 19.67sec at the athletics championships in Sydney.

Aidan Murphy pushed the 18-year-old deep into the straight and finished with the second best 200m time by an Australian of 19.88sec, with a tailwind of +1.7m/s.

Gout previously held the national record of 20.02sec and ran a wind-assisted 19.84sec (+2.2m/s) at the Australian Athletics Championships last year, but blew away both times in the final on Sunday.

Good-oh.

Don’t expect me to do the same.

I remember my maternal grandmother giving me half a crown when I demonstrated that I could swim across the rock pool at Avalon in Sydney, in 1960. She also said that I would get another half a crown when I swam across the English channel. I didn’t think that that was such brilliant value, so I never did.

A British half crown? 2/6¿

You weren’t her favourite then?

I thought it quite a deal of money way back then, but definitely not enough to swim the 21 miles from Dover to France.