Matt Shervington

And he had to go back a number of steps.

He was doing Pilates week in, week out.

He was doing a lot of core work and really strengthening in and around his spine so that one, he could recover, but two, he wasn't going to do it again.

So as you said, he's only 22 years of age.

He's so young.

And I think if Gout wasn't around, and so many people have already referred to this, that

He would be stealing all the headlines and he's done an amazing job to cut through the way that he has and deservedly so.

He's beaten Gout in his pet event over the 200 at the Morro Plant Meet.

In back-to-back years, he's broken 10 at the national championships and has shown that he's only got more to come as well.

So the thing with Lockie, which I think is most impressive, aside from his technical ability, is he is a competitor.

So he knows how to find it when he needs it.

And we saw that at the national championships.

He was beaten last year by Rowan Browning, although he had the fastest qualifying time.

And he learned a lot from that.

and he just seems to – he's a smart kid.

He's a really smart kid.

You get a chance to talk to him.

He's very switched on for a young 20-something-year-old, and that's going to pay him back to the intelligence that he has.

More broadly, Australian athletics, how strong is it at the moment compared to previous generations or other eras that you've seen and have been involved in?

So often, Tom, we always get waves of a really good –