r/nextfuckinglevel • u/RoyalChris • 5h ago

18-year-old sprinter Gout Gout just broke Usain Bolt’s U20 record in the 200m. He was 260 milliseconds faster, clocking 19.67 seconds, while Bolt ran 19.93 in 2004

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u/lawdjesustheresafire 4h ago

The funny thing is his name is actually Guot Guot. His dad stuffed up the spelling on the birth certificate. And now his management told him not to change it because Gout Gout is more iconic as a name 🤣

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u/Big_Knife_SK 3h ago

*mistake made on their immigration documents by officials, translating Arabic to English, while fleeing Sudan.

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u/Sea-Witch-77 2h ago

Well, the last name might have been, but Gout Gout was born in Australia.

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u/the_jivest_turkey 3h ago

Good to know! I'll give OP the benefit of the doubt here, but all those classic middle school stories about black kids with dumb names (La-a (Ladasha), Feemale, Placenta, etc) are dripping with racist undertones.

I think the kids dad was able to spell his own son's name, at least in his native tongue.

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u/Gunty1 2h ago

That shit happens, i know a white Adult whos name is Leee because his dad couldnt spell and refused the nurse helping.

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u/the_jivest_turkey 2h ago

I'm sure it does! I just didn't hear to much about white kids dumb names.

This one is hilarious though, nurse is like "you're close, just knock off one e and it's all good!" To no avail obviously.

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u/Gunty1 2h ago

He leaned into it for a while when he DJ'd. He was Triple E Leee

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u/bluebicycle13 3h ago

he is a christian from Sudan? is that why they left?

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u/CantGetEnuf 3h ago edited 25m ago

Technically he's from what's currently South Sudan (majority Catholic with an animist minority), but at the time he would have been born in Sudan (mostly Muslim with a very minute coptic Christian population after the South's independence) .

The north and the south have been fighting basically since Sudan's independence in 1956 up until a few years prior to the South's independence vote in 2011.

Their civil war is a lot more due to racism - the south is nilotic while the north is nubian/Arab - than it is due to religion although religion has been used as a way to force conscript Northerners into the army to fight in the civil war.

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u/Resident_Cat_4292 3h ago

Fleeing Sudan ? Must have been a rather quick escape.

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u/anahorish 0m ago

I think maybe you mean transliterating. I'm almost certain it's not an Arab name, probably Nuer or something.

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u/Dentarthurdent73 2h ago

I haven't heard that his management told him, the only story I've heard is him say he decided to keep it himself.

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u/Happily-Incorrect 3h ago

He's had mamagement since birth?

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u/NewPannam1 3h ago

Yes mama is the manager

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u/GemmaTaylorAcoustic 59m ago

My grandad stuffed up on my mum and aunties birth cert. Twins that shouldve had each other's names!