TOKYO: Gout Gout shared a stage with Olympic champions this week, strutting his stuff in the company of Noah Lyles and Letsile Tebogo at the world athletics championships in the capital of Japan.

His next competition? A Queensland school meet at Mt Gravatt in the southern suburbs of Brisbane next month. And he'll be pulling out his pencil case a few days later, ready to sit his year 12 exams.

"It definitely feels crazy [thinking about the] two sides of the same coin," Gout said after bowing out in the semi-finals of the men's 200 metres on Thursday night.

"I'm going back to high school and these people are going back to their homes, going back to their jobs.

"So it's definitely crazy."

The press pack surrounding the schoolboy, by the way, surely totalled more than a couple dozen, an

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