At 18, Gout Gout is the fastest teenager ever in the 200-meter dash. So what makes him different? “He's got these springs in his legs,” says Dylan Hicks, an expert in sports biomechanics and a movement scientist at Flinders University in Adelaide. “Everybody has springs in their legs because we’ve got these things called Achilles tendons. But when we have them at a longer length, Achilles tendons are really powerful at storing elastic energy.” At 6 feet tall and under 150 pounds, Gout is built f
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At 18, Gout Gout is the fastest teenager ever in the 200-meter dash. So what makes him different? “He's got these springs in his legs,” says Dylan Hicks, an expert in sports biomechanics and a movement scientist at Flinders University in Adelaide. “Everybody has springs in their legs because we’ve got these things called Achilles tendons. But when we have them at a longer length, Achilles tendons are really powerful at storing elastic energy.” At 6 feet tall and under 150 pounds, Gout is built f
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