Matt Shervington

When he broke Peter Norman's national record, Usain Bolt got on social media and said, hey, this kid reminds me of me.

I mean, that is the level of endorsement that he's getting.

It's not from anyone else.

He's not being labelled as the next Usain Bolt.

Usain Bolt is actually saying, hey, this kid is like me.

So huge amount of pressure, huge amount of expectation, but he's almost half a second faster than Usain was at the same age.

So he's almost ahead of the game in that sense.

Also, too, he's got a 10-flat

100 metre run as well and probably will break 10 may even do it at the junior nationals up in Brisbane this weekend and rival Lockie Kennedy's 100 time of 996 that we saw a couple of times over the weekend here at the senior nationals in Sydney the ceiling the truth is he could be anything he's got to stay injury free he's got to get stronger and all of the things that his coach Dice Shepard are working on at the moment technically and

He's got huge amount of room for improvement in his 200 alone.

And we saw that over the weekend where kind of the second half of that.

that first 100 around the bend is still, you know, not perfect.

So the sky's the limit.

So you were 20 when you went to Kuala Lumpur and won bronze in the 4.4x1.

How is it having the weight of a nation on your shoulders and the pressure, particularly in these sprint races where, you know, one poor millisecond or one just slightly awkward step can be the difference between glory and finishing second last?

Yeah, and that's exactly right.

You literally get a bad start at the wrong time and it's all over.

I often will talk to school kids or other athletes and we've all heard of the one percenters, right?

The one percenters are the things that you do consistently and determined and you make sure you leave nothing out on the training paddock or wherever it is that you're working hard.

There are two types of one percenters in our game and in any game, it could be footy, it could be anything,