Victor Osimhen has earned comparison to Usain Bolt and Noah Lyles following recent showcase of speed. i Victor Osimhen has earned comparison to Usain Bolt and Noah Lyles following recent showcase of speed.

Victor Osimhen has earned comparison to Usain Bolt and Noah Lyles following recent showcase of speed.

Galatasaray, have placed accolades on Nigerian footballer Victor Osimhen, claiming he is “the fastest man alive” after his latest spectacular showing.

 

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What happened?

 

Osimhen has scored 29 goals this season for Galatasaray.

The Super Eagles striker continued his brilliant form on Friday night when he netted the second goal in Galatasaray’s 2-0 win over Samsunspor.

 

The Nigerian international’s blistering pace during the match earned him comparison to sprint greats Usain Bolt and Noah Lyles who have both been dubbed the ‘fastest man alive’ due to their incredible speed.

 

Galatasaray presented a colourful graphic to highlight the meaning behind it, where they claimed him as “the fastest man alive” on their official social media.

 

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Fans responded loudly with admiration for the 26 year old in the comments section, filling them up full of glory to an over age.

 

Victor Osimhen is proving with each successive match that the hype surrounding him is very much deserved and he is one of the most electrifying strikers in world football.

 

But with the season now reaching its most important stages, Galatasaray will need their Nigerian star to keep on scoring if they are going to claim the championship.

 

Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 F1 world champion, has weighed in on Formula 1’s greatest of all time debate. Lewis Hamilton is statistically the most successful driver ever.

 

Critics, however, attempt to discredit some of Hamilton’s achievements by pointing out that Mercedes had a commanding advantage during his peak. He won six titles in seven years with the Silver Arrows.

 

Hamilton beat Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg in 2014 and ’15, then saw off Sebastian Vettel in 2017 and ’18. He romped to the 2019 and ’20 crowns against Rosberg’s replacement, Valtteri Bottas.

 

 

Villeneuve is well-placed to comment on the debate given his own credentials and the competition he’s faced. He’s gone up against three world champions in Damon Hill, Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso, and also fought Michael Schumacher for the title.

 

Lewis Hamilton’s ‘risk-taking’ doesn’t compare to previous F1 eras, Jacques Villeneuve says

Speaking to Canal+, Villeneuve joked that neither Hamilton nor Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff had ever said ‘thank you’ for his contribution to the team’s success. The Canadian drove for forerunners BAR between 1999 and 2003.

 

Turning to Hamilton’s place in history, he accepted that the 40-year-old had left the ‘biggest mark’ of any driver. His recent move to Ferrari highlighted his status as the most famous, most marketable name who’s ever raced in F1.

 

However, Villeneuve stopped short of calling him the greatest driver ever. He doesn’t understand how one can compare contenders from different eras.

 

 

The ‘risk-taking’ was completely different in the early years of the world championship, he says. Juan Manuel Fangio won five world titles in the 1950s, a record only Schumacher and Hamilton have beaten.

 

“He never said thank you!” Villeneuve said of Hamilton. “He’s never said thank you for building my team, and neither has Toto Wolff.

 

“He’s the one who’s made the biggest mark on history. It’s hard to say who’s the greatest, because how can you compare a driver of the 2000s, 2020s to a driver of the 50s, 60s, to a Fangio?

 

“The eras are too different. The risk-taking is too different.”

 

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Hamilton has now entered the final phase of his F1 career. Fernando Alonso is five years older than his former teammate, but the Spaniard is surely an outlier.

 

Hamilton’s Ferrari contract runs for two years and potentially contains the option for a third. His goal in that period is simple – become the first driver ever to win an eighth world championship.

 

When he decides to retire, Oliver Bearman could be Ferrari’s next signing. Currently racing for Haas, the teenager is part of their driver academy.

 

Speaking before the Bahrain Grand Prix, Alonso said Max Verstappen’s titles were harder-fought than Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel’s crowns. But this prompted fans to dig up remarks from 2011 where he called the Englishman ‘the only driver capable of winning races in a car which is not the best’.

 

Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track has faced harsh criticism after its underwhelming debut in Kingston, with the Diamond League founder calling it a ‘flop’ and questioning its vision.

The first edition of Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track was held from April 4 to 6 in Kingston, Jamaica and there was no doubt that people would have something to say.

 

However, Michael Johnson’s league has been in the face of criticism with the latest coming from Diamond League founder Patrick Magyar.

 

Patrick Magyar shared a lengthy post on his LinkedIn, explaining why Michael Johnson’s Track league was bound to face a major hit.

 

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He dubbed the competitions in Kingston as boring, revealing that there were no fans who turned up for the much-hyped track league. He added that the

 

“It took just one competition day for the much-hyped Grand Slam Track series to prove it’s not the future of track and field – it’s a flop. In fact, “Grand Flop Track” might be a more accurate name,” Magyar shared.

 

“Billed as the sport’s bold new direction by Michael Johnson, the series revealed its true face on day one in Kingston, Jamaica: an atmosphere closer to a mausoleum than a laboratory of innovation.

 

“What did we see? Boring, lifeless competitions, long stretches of nothing happening, and – perhaps most telling – a completely empty stadium. This in Kingston, the capital of one of the world’s greatest track and field nations.”

 

Patrick Maygar goes down memory lane on Michael Johnson’s personality

Grand Slam Track

Patrick Maygar, having been in managerial duties in the world of track and field for over 10 years also addressed Michael Johnson’s personality, when he was an active athlete.

 

He explained that at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, when Michael Johnson ran the world record of 19.32 seconds in the 200m, he had his doubts and he was not the only one.

 

After that performance, Patrick Maygar explained that Michael Johnson started demanding outrageous amounts of appearance fees through his agent Bradley Hunt.

 

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He alleged that Michael Johnson would not accept anything less than what Carl Lewis was receiving at the time.

 

According to Patrick Maygar, Carl Lewis deserved the appearance fee he demanded since he had achieved more success than Michael Johnson.

 

“After Atlanta, the bargaining began. Johnson demanded astronomical appearance fees — sums previously reserved only for legends like Carl Lewis, who won his fourth long jump gold in 1996,” Patrick Maygar revealed.

 

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“In every negotiation with his agent, Bradley Hunt, it became clear: Johnson wouldn’t accept anything less than Lewis. We organizers initially thought this was just the agent’s doing.

 

“But no — he was following Johnson’s lead. Johnson didn’t care if other athletes got fair deals, or if meets were compelling for fans. As long as his fee was right, everything else was secondary.”

 

Michael Johnson as a commentator

Michael Johnson Grand Slam Track

After hanging his spikes, Michael Johnson landed a lucrative deal as a commentator and also worked with the Daily Telegraph and The Times newspapers.

 

Patrick Maygar insisted that Michael Johnson transferred his personality from the track to his workplace and always believed everything he did was right, something that gave rise to the Grand Slam Track series.

 

Michael Johnson excluding field events

Grand Slam Track

Following the launch of the Grand Slam Track, the main focus would be on track events and higher pay. The winners of each Slam are guaranteed $ 100,000.

 

However, the Diamond League founder believes that excluding field events was the first step to failing. He pointed out that fans are still interested in field events and leaving out some of their best would bring about a division.

 

He alleged that Michael Johnson disrespected half of the track and field family and that was the price he had to pay for that.

 

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“But do fans really want a version of athletics without jumpers and throwers? Are we willing to drop legends like Ryan Crouser, Mondo Duplantis, Neeraj Chopra, Hamish Kerr, Barshim, Tamberi, Tentóglou, Mahuchikh, Olyslagers, Patterson, Valarie Allman, Malaika Mihambo, Yulimar Rojas – just to fit someone’s narrow idea of what sells?” he asked.

 

“Then what you create is not a vision. You create a Grand Flop. Track and field doesn’t need a saviour. It needs respect. Balance. And above all: integrity.”

 

The Grand Slam Track is scheduled for three more legs in the US, with the next Slam to be held in Miami from May 2 to 4. Philadelphia and Los Angeles will then host the third and fourth Slams from May 30 to June 1 and June 27 to 29 respectively.

 

As the Grand Slam Track series gears up for its upcoming legs in the US, Michael Johnson faces mounting criticism not only for the lukewarm debut in Kingston but also for the vision underpinning his league.

 

With strong opinions from figures like Patrick Magyar highlighting concerns over exclusivity, lack of atmosphere, and disrespect toward field events, the future of Johnson’s bold new venture now hangs in the balance.

 

Whether the series can adapt, improve, and win over the global track and field community remains to be seen — but one thing is certain: the road ahead will be anything but smooth.

 

 

Nicola Olyslagers celebrates with the Australian flag at the Paris Olympics.

Nicola Olyslagers celebrates her silver medal at the Paris Olympics.

In short:

Nicola Olyslagers followed up her Paris Olympics silver in the high jump with victory at last month’s World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing.

 

Olyslagers is focused on adding a world outdoor title to her CV later this year.

 

What’s next?

She will face Eleanor Patterson in the high jump final at the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth on Sunday.

 

Nicola Olyslagers jokes she and husband Rhys are living the “Australian dream”.

 

It’s not a glib comment from the Paris Olympics silver medallist, however, as she credits everyday lifestyle changes — such as home and pet ownership — with helping maintain her love of high jumping.

 

“My husband and I got married just after the Tokyo Olympics and we sort of put our lives on hold in order to be performing to the best of my ability in Paris,” Olyslagers told ABC Sport.

 

“After that finished we were like, ‘Oh, what now?’

 

“So we went down that route … we just got a house now and we got a puppy. We did the Australian dream kind of thing.

 

“But I found that brought a lot of strength too because it didn’t impact my training.

 

“It actually spurred me on to love training because that was my consistency. I could go back.

 

“Even though my life is changing so much, the weights don’t change. I still know what it feels like to lift 80 kilograms above my head.”

 

Olympic athletes are prone to experiencing a post-Games lull, where motivation may be lacking after committing to a four-year cycle focused solely on achieving one goal.

 

Olyslagers was mindful of avoiding this trap after claiming silver for the second consecutive Olympics in Paris last year.

 

Nicola Olysalgers competing in the high jump at the World Athletics Indoor Championships.

Olyslagers won her second consecutive gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships last month.

And she could not have asked for a better start to her 2025 season following the successful defence of her high jump gold at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing three weeks ago.

 

“I think with good rest and making those right decisions and changes, it can renew you,” said Olyslagers, who is competing at the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth on Sunday.

 

“It can bring a different kind of strength.”

 

According to Olyslagers, prioritising rest is crucial to an athlete’s emotional wellbeing.

 

“Rest is so important and communicating with the people around you, as well as finding people who value you as a person outside of you as an athlete,” she said.

 

Olyslagers out of ‘comfort zone’

Olyslagers arrived in Perth for the national titles buoyed by her triumph in Nanjing.

 

She won gold ahead of fellow Australian Eleanor Patterson on countback after both cleared 1.97 metres.

 

They finished in front of Ukraine’s Olympic champion, Yaroslava Mahuchikh, who exited the final at 1.95m to collect bronze.

 

“I went in there and I just wanted to give myself the ability to do something surprising, do something new, which was to open a season on an international circuit and to do it well,” Olyslagers said.

 

“I think that really brought a freshness to my preparation, to be out of my comfort zone, and so to get the gold medal, I was delighted.

 

“I thought I’d have to do something out of this world to do it. But as it was with the timing and how the competition went, I’m very satisfied with my performance.”

 

Nicola Olyslagers and Eleanor Patterson pose with Australian flags at the world indoor athletics championships high jump final.

Olyslagers (left) and Eleanor Patterson shared the podium in Nanjing.

Olyslagers will face Patterson again in Perth as they continue their healthy rivalry.

 

Patterson shared bronze with Ukrainian Iryna Gerashchenko at the Paris Olympics and won gold at the 2022 World Athletics Championships held in Eugene.

 

She was the silver medallist behind Mahuchikh at the Budapest world titles in 2023, with Olyslagers taking home bronze.

 

Patterson’s personal best of 2.02m is 1 centimetre shy of Olyslagers’s national record and their head-to-head meeting will be a highlight of the weekend’s program of events in Perth.

 

Olyslagers is not putting any expectations on her performance, choosing instead to look ahead to her outdoor campaign overseas.

 

She will compete in the Chinese leg of the Diamond League circuit at the Xiamen (April 26) and Shanghai/Keqiao (May 3) meets, but is unsure of how her European schedule looks at this stage.

 

All roads lead to September’s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, where Olyslagers is determined to add outdoor gold to her indoor victory.

 

“I wasn’t aiming to peak at this one (World Athletics Indoor Championships),” Olyslagers said.

 

“My real aim is Japan this year, so it was just a glorified start to the season with a golden finish to it.”

 

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Usain Bolt has made his feelings clear on potentially losing his 100-metre world record to Australian sprint sensation Gout Gout.

 

Bolt’s world record, a time of 9.58 seconds set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin, has never come close to being beaten by another competitor in the past 15 years.

 

The fastest man in the world right now, Noah Lyles, ran a personal best time of 9.79 to win the 100m final at Paris 2024, while Bolt’s compatriot Oblique Seville ran 9.81 in the heats and has been tipped to potentially go even quicker.

 

 

 

But significant attention within the athletics world has been placed on Gout, who turned 17 in December.

 

Usain Bolt 100m race vs average person

He went viral on social media after running a record-breaking time of 10.29 seconds to win the Under-18 boys’ 100-metre event at the Queensland Athletics Championships last March.

 

Gout has since improved that personal best time to a 10.17.

 

On Wednesday, meanwhile, the 17-year-old twice went under 10 seconds at the Australian Athletics Championships, running 9.99 in one of his heats and then the final.

 

Australian Athletics

Gout ran the times in ‘illegal’ tailwinds – above the 2.0m/s legal limit – meaning the times won’t count towards the record books.

 

 

 

But he has already been compared to Bolt and is tipped to be one of the leading stars of athletics in the years to come.

 

The Jamaican has previously made his feelings clear on potentially losing his 100m world record after over 15 years.

 

In 2008, Bolt won Olympic gold in the 4x100m relay with Jamaica, and ended his career with nine gold medals.

 

But that relay gold was stripped from him nine years later, after team-mate Nesta Carter was suspended from athletics for a doping sanction.

 

 

 

Traces of the banned stimulant methylexanamine were found in Carter’s A and B samples in 2016, with the samples having been retested from the 2008 Olympics.

 

Speaking after the announcement that the team had been stripped of the medal, Bolt said he was ‘disappointed’ on an individual level but stated that it did not make him any less proud of his career in athletics – appearing to indicate that he would feel the same way if a world record was taken from him.

 

“I am disappointed based on losing a medal,” he told AFP. “But it won’t take away from what I have done throughout my career, because I have won my individual events and that’s the key thing.

 

“What can you do? I’ve done all I wanted in the sport, I have really impacted the sport, I’ve really accomplished a lot, so for me, I can’t complain.”

 

 

 

Olympic champion Noah Lyles and fiance Junelle Bromfield.

Track and Field couple Noah Lyles and Junelle Bromfield have recently stolen the spotlight at a private screening of a Hollywood premier.

Olympic champion Noah Lyles and Jamaican fiancee Junelle Bromfield have recently stolen the spotlight at a Hollywood film premiere.

 

The track and field couple attended a private screening of The Amateur at an AMC Dine-In Theater on Wednesday, April 9.

 

The film, produced by 20th Century Studios, features Hollywood star and Academy Award winner Rami Malek and nominee Laurence Fishburne.

 

Lyles and Bromfield had a memorable experience, seemingly all jolly in their casual outfits as they posed in front of the movie poster for pictures.

 

The footage also captured the inside of the theatre where Lyles and Bromfield attended the private screening for the film, set to premiere for the public on April 11.

 

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Lyles and Bromfield Private Screening Moment

 

Noah Lyles and Junelle Bromfield share a moment during the premier of the Amateur on April 9.

 

 

Gout Gout with fans at the national athletics championships in Perth.

Gout Gout has become a fan favourite wherever he competes.

If anyone needed convincing about the existence of the so-called “Gout Gout effect”, perhaps their doubts were erased on Thursday night.

 

For the second time in two weeks, the 17-year-old held a massive crowd of spectators captivated under his spell.

 

Competing in the U20 100m final at the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth, Gout provided his audience with a breathtaking spectacle, running the blue-riband event in under 10 seconds.

 

Sadly, his effort of 9.99 seconds was wind-assisted (+2.6m/s), meaning it will not stand as an official personal best.

 

Gout stopped the clock in the same time two hours earlier, also with the aid of an illegal tailwind (+3.5m/s).

 

But the presence of an unfriendly gust didn’t detract from the stunning display of sprinting Gout produced that left those in the grandstand awestruck.

 

Gout Gout competing at the national championships.

Gout twice ran under 10 seconds for the 100m with the assistance of an illegal tailwind at the national titles. (Getty Images: Cameron Spencer)

You could hear a pin drop when it was time for Gout to slide into his starting blocks, as was the case at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne almost a fortnight ago.

 

On that occasion, Gout fell agonisingly short of victory in the open-aged 200m, with Lachlan Kennedy pipping his fellow Queenslander by 0.04 of a second (20.26 to 20.30).

 

Gout didn’t lose any admirers, with a Perth-based legion of fans trekking to the WA Athletics Stadium on Thursday to catch a glimpse of a sprinting talent who has already attracted worldwide attention.

 

His youngest supporters were particularly enthralled, as they clamoured for the chance of getting a selfie with their hero once the dust had settled following the 100m final.

 

Gout a boon for athletics in Australia

Gout’s performances went viral last year and he added to his aura when he broke Peter Norman’s long-standing national 200m record as a 16-year-old in December with a time of 20.04.

 

That unfairly sent comparisons to Usain Bolt into overdrive, as Gout had run a quicker time for the 200m than the Jamaican legend had at the same age.

 

Gout’s feet are firmly on the ground, though, courtesy of a strong family unit and the wise guidance of his coach Di Sheppard and manager James Templeton.

 

You could see the tight bond Gout shares with Sheppard and Templeton on Thursday night, when he made a beeline to embrace both immediately after his media commitments had concluded.

 

Gout Gout with his coach Di Sheppard.

Gout (right) is congratulated by his coach Di Sheppard after his win on Thursday night. (Getty Images: Cameron Spencer)

Governing body Australian Athletics (AA) is mindful of Gout’s reach, having intelligently used the Ipswich Grammar School student as part of its marketing strategies.

 

He was pivotal to AA securing live free-to-air coverage of the Maurie Plant Meet on the Seven Network, with a strong TV audience tuning in to watch the event.

 

Gout’s emergence has come at a time when athletics is riding a wave of success in Australia.

 

At the Paris Olympics, Australia claimed seven medals, including Nina Kennedy’s gold in the pole vault, while it managed 14 podium finishes at last year’s World U20 Athletics Championships in Lima.

 

Gout was among the medallists in Lima, winning silver in the 200m.

 

He’s appreciative of the public display of love athletics is enjoying, even if he’s too humble to admit it has much to do with his exploits on the track.

 

“This is what Australian athletics needs,” Gout told reporters after the U20 100m final in Perth.

 

“This is what we wake up in the morning for. I couldn’t ask for anything better.

 

“The great crowds and everyone getting around. It’s great. Hopefully, we can get a lot more people.”

 

With the “Gout Gout effect” set to go up a few notches in the coming years, athletics in Australia should get used to the attention.

 

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Keely Hodgkinson is set to make her return after a lengthy injury

The British track star won gold at the Olympic Games in Paris last summer

Hodgkinson plans to compete at the Diamond League in Stockholm in June

Keely Hodgkinson plans to make her comeback from injury at the Stockholm Diamond League meeting in June, in what will be her first race since winning Olympic gold last summer.

 

The British 800 metres star tore her hamstring in February, ruling her out of her own Keely Klassic event, as well as the European and World Indoor Championships.

 

 

However, Hodgkinson was back running on the track this week at a training camp in Potchefstroom, South Africa.

 

Mail Sport understands the 23-year-old now hopes to make her racing return at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium on June 15, putting her firmly on course for the World Championships in September.

 

‘Eight weeks after my hamstring tear we did our first track session back in spikes,’ Hodgkinson wrote on Instagram. ‘Lots of rehab later and with much more to progress, happy to be back.’

 

After Stockholm, Hodgkinson is down to compete at the Prefontaine Classic – the Eugene Diamond League event – on July 5. There, she will face Tsige Duguma and Mary Moraa, who claimed silver and bronze behind her in the Olympic 800m final in Paris.

 

 

 

Tottenham Hotspur have had a poor season, that much is absolutely clear.

 

Indeed, Spurs sit in the bottom-half of the Premier League table, and Ange Postecoglou is under serious pressure.

 

A number of Tottenham players have underperformed this season and there have been a number of fingers pointed.

 

However, it hasn’t all been doom and gloom for Tottenham this season, there have been some players who are bright sparks.

 

Archie Gray has been praised for his performances this season, while, speaking on his podcast, Kyle Walker has now praised Djed Spence for his performances this season.

 

 

Kyle Walker praises Djed Spence

Walker spoke about Spence after the Spurs star named Walker as one of his idols on Rio Ferdinand’s podcast recently.

 

Walker says that the £20m man has done fantastically well this season, claiming that he’s been unlucky to not get an England call up recently.

 

“From hearing it from, you know, your fellow footballing, you know, players that you’ve, you know, that they look up to you, obviously, I think personally from me coming back to him on his career, again, you know, he’s had a few setbacks from coming back from obviously flying at Nottingham Forest, signing for Tottenham, then going out on loan. Some people are forward, but I think this season especially, he’s played out of position at times with Tottenham’s, you know, injury crisis. Yeah,” Walker said.

 

“And he’s kind of, yeah, he’s just took it in his stride. And I seen him actually play at Nottingham Forest. And I thought this, you know, this one’s going to be a good one.

 

“And you can see a Premier League team snapping him up. Did I know it would be my old team? No.

 

“But I think that he’s doing fantastically well this season, probably unlucky not to get a senior call up to the England team. But if he was there, probably have took my space. So just hold off for, you know, five more games.”

 

Djed Spence’s England hopes analysed

Walker says that Spence was unlucky to not get an England call up, and it is interesting to consider the full-back’s path into Thomas Tuchel’s side.

 

Unfortunately, for Spence, he’s playing in a role where there is a ton of competition at the moment as England continue to produce quality right-backs.

 

England’s right-back optionsTrent Alexander-ArnoldReece JamesKyle WalkerTino Livramento

Of course, as Walker says, Spence has also done a job at left-back this season, but, even in that spot, the path isn’t very clear right now.

 

England’s left-back optionsLuke ShawLewis HallTyrick MitchellMyles Lewis-Skelly

If Spence continues playing well, he may well work his way into consideration for the England squad, but given how much quality is ahead of him, the Spurs star does face an uphill battle here.