Matt Shervington
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Just amazing.
I mean, I use this term in the most polite way, but he is a freak.
He is a freak in the best way.
He is built for speed and he is built for competition like this.
And we saw it all culminate together.
on Sunday to break that national record and not just break it.
Like he absolutely obliterated it.
Yeah.
And there's something about the 200 meters as well.
It gives it time to, gives him time to separate himself from the field as he kicks around the bend.
So he won't be at the Commonwealth games.
He's focusing on the world under 20 championships in Oregon in August, but he's quicker at the same age than what Usain Bolt was.
How high is his ceiling?
How far can he go?
Yeah, by almost half a second based on that time that we saw.
So in athletic world, he's been around for a little while.
We've been watching this young kid come through and do amazing things at a junior level.
For about a year, he really burst onto the stage when he broke
originally broke Peter Norman's 20.06 national record.
That was about 12 months ago, and he's held that for the last 12 months, and then he just smashed it over the weekend.