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Keely Hodgkinson could extremity her profession arsenic 1 of nan top of each clip while nan 17-year-old Australian sprinter Gout Gout is nan existent deal, Sebastian Coe has predicted connected nan eve of nan world championships successful Tokyo.
Coe won 2 Olympic 1500m golden medals, collapsed 9 world records and has known astir of way and field’s biggest stars successful nan past 50 years. So his words transportation other weight, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to nan 800m, nan arena successful which he held nan world grounds for 18 years.
When asked whether Hodgkinson, who took Olympic golden successful Paris, could extremity her profession arsenic 1 of nan top Britain has produced, Coe was emphatic – and past went moreover further.
“Yeah, she perfectly could,” he replied. “I’ve nary uncertainty astir that. Absolutely, for sure. And she could extremity up astatine nan apical of nan heap internationally if she goes on.
“I’ve spoken to her capable times to cognize that mentally, she’s mahogany hard,” he added. “She is perfectly committed to wanting to extremity her profession apical of nan heap and there’s nary logic why she shouldn’t.”
Coe besides praised Hodgkinson’s coaches, Trevor Painter and Jenny Meadows, for getting her backmost to her champion aft hamstring and backmost issues. The 23-year-old ran 1min 54sec successful August successful Silesia, her first tally for 376 days, earlier a 1:55 in Lausanne 4 days later.
“You person to marvel astatine really she has travel back,” Coe said. “To beryllium retired injured and past fundamentally your first measurement ft connected nan way and you’re moving 1:54. We’ve been saying this for a agelong time, she is nan existent deal.
“The only be aware I would counsel is sometimes you’re truthful keen to get backmost into title that you almost execute supra nan level of endurance and fittingness that you have. What I thought was rather clever was doing 2 races back-to-back because what she was intelligibly testing was that thesis really.
“Did she person capable successful nan vessel to spell back-to-back? Which is what she’s going to beryllium asked to do successful Tokyo? And nan reply was intelligibly a resounding yes.”
Coe besides said that he had been excited by Gout Gout, who has already tally a wind-assisted 9.98 for nan 100m and a 19.84 for 200m.
“At 17 I was astir apt conscionable astir qualifying for nan inter-counties,” said Coe. “He’s an outstanding athlete. I was very privileged to person supper pinch him aft nan Diamond League successful Monaco, pinch his coach. A really, really bully Australian coach. A female coach [Di Sheppard], too, which is ever good.
“He’s very level-headed. He’s intelligibly sewage a batch of talent. He’s got, successful James Templeton, a bully head that isn’t forcing him excessively quickly. Clearly he is nan existent deal.
“The biggest situation is to return an jock from his property done nan adjacent three-four years into nan elder ranks, safely, mentally successful decent style and physically not severely damaged. I thought he was incredibly level-headed. Seemed to cognize what he was doing. I deliberation it’s a awesome story.”
But while nan Australian media is successful unit successful Tokyo to travel Gout Gout, Coe said it was excessively early to load him pinch nan anticipation of a medal. “It will beryllium a immense learning curve for him,” Coe said. “He’s astir apt astatine this infinitesimal excessively young to beryllium acrophobic and doesn’t rather understand really analyzable it gets later on.”
Coe besides insisted that World Athletics would beryllium fresh for a typhoon successful Tokyo aft nan tropical large wind Tapah caused dozens of flights to beryllium cancelled retired of Hong Kong connected Monday. “First of all, let’s dream location isn’t one,” he said. “Second, we do person nan afloat meteorological prediction and predictive teams retired location astatine nan moment.”
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