Article 767K8 American teenager Lutkenhaus stuns Olympic champion as Gout learns lesson

American teenager Lutkenhaus stuns Olympic champion as Gout learns lesson

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Sean Ingle at the Bislett Stadion
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  • Cooper Lutkenhaus, 17, wins 800m by 0.01sec

  • Gout Gout sixth; Tebogo says: He has a long way to go'

There are few venues more deeply embedded into track and field's soul than the Bislett Stadion. An extraordinary 70 world records have been set here. Plenty of reputations have been made. Plenty more left frayed, too.

And so it proved again as the brilliant 17-year-old American Cooper Lutkenhaus added to his staggering resume by taking down the Olympic 800m champion, Emmanuel Wanyonyi, with a race for the ages. But another, the Australian star Gout Gout, learned what it was like in the big leagues.

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