The Gurgler people have spoken and voted up and coming sprint sensation Gout Gout as the 2024 Gurgler Person of the Year.
Our 2024 Gurgler Person of the Year is an annual tradition, celebrating the people or things that made our year. In most cases they wouldn’t feature in any reputable website, newspaper or street interview, but that doesn’t matter, as long as they amused, or inspired us, or something in between.
And often the Person of the Year isn’t actually human, as sometimes there are years where humans simply don’t deserve to be the 2024 Gurgler Person of the Year, or any other year. As our Honour Roll shows below.
Gurgler Person of the Year Honour Roll
2023 – Paul Burt & Sporting Mascots
2022/2021 – Not contested – blame Covid.
2020 – Adebayo Akinfenwa & Greg Norman
2019 – Bandit from Bluey
2018 – SBS World Cup Coverage & Greg Norman
2017 – Farmer from Shaun the Sheep
2016 – Charles Strunk
2015 – Willie Minoga
2014 – Reggie the Rabbitoh
Our 2024 Gurgler Person of the Year features our many nominations decided by us, but the winner has been decided by the reader of the Gurgler website, and they think that future Olympic star is the current 2024 Person of the Year.
2024 Gurgler Person of the Year Voting – Vote Now
Here is the final voting for our 2024 Person of the Year.
2024 Gurgler Person of the Year – Gout Gout
Not yet an Olympian, but someone who appears destined to do so.
Queensland speed machine Gout Gout hasn’t even left school yet, but he is the most talked about athlete in Australia.
He’s come close to breaking the 10 second mark for the 100 metres and recently broke the 200 metre record which has stood probably longer than his parents have been around.
He has the right amount of swagger on track to do the 100 metre genre justice, but still seems a normal school kid of it.
It’s only a matter of time that he breaks the 10 second barrier, excels at the Olympics and is bigger than Greg Norman. Maybe not richer. Yet.
Other 2024 Gurgler Person of the Year Nominations
RAYGUN
At the other end of the Olympic scale is Raygun – someone who has been to an Olympics, and many have thought she probably shouldn’t have.
We of course disagree, and see Raygun as a visionary, sporting pioneer who knew exactly what she was doing with her outstanding Australian themed routine in Paris. She was putting Break Dancing on the world stage, even at her own expense.
And what a place to do it too. Paris Olympics, where an almost nude, blue man sitting in a fruit tray featured in the opening ceremony.
Yeah she knew her kangaroo hopping had an audience and her widely panned routine will live in the minds and phones of Australians forever, long after they forget bronze, silver and even gold medalists from the 2024 Olympics.
Genius.
We celebrated her in this piece earlier in the year after she announced her retirement.
YUSUF DIKEC
Similarly rogue at the Olympics, but with a lot more mmmmmmmmedal winning and all-round worldwide appeal was Yusuf Dikec aka That Casual Turkish Shooter Guy from the Paris Olympics.
Looking more like an extra from a Martin Scorsese film, the Turkish shooter looked ever so casual as he set about his Olympic effort, one good enough for silver.
But it was the casual way he went about it, just looked like a regular individual who worked hard and deserved a little success and a nomination for 2024 Gurgler Person of the Year.
OSCAR PIASTRI
It was a big year for Oscar Piastri, F1 driver for McLaren. He won two races, a Sprint race or two, all while helping his team to their first team’s title in a few decades.
Much like the Turkish shooter above, he does it with a style where it looks too easy, and/or success is met with barely more than shrug of the shoulders and a cheers to his team on the radio.
While other F1 drivers with whoop and holler at a podium, Piastri barely seems to care when he wins races. Although, it was hard to blame him not enjoying his first win at the Hungarian GP this year, when team orders kind of spoiled the moment.
But there will be other moments, and plenty of them. If the McLaren form curve continues to trend up, Piastri will be a World Champion. And probably meet it with a cheers to his team, and a thumbs up.
IPSWICH TOWN
After decades of mediocrity, and a few more years of even worse, Ipswich Town have given their fans something to cheers for with a stunning rare back-to-back promotion to the Premier League.
Sure early results haven’t been good except for beating Spurs and probably should have beaten Man Utd, and they look like they going down already with just one win from their first 15 games, but who cares. Before off getting beaten in the Premier League for a season than being beaten in the third division.
TRAVIS HEAD
A cricketing maverick who delivers when Australia usually need him to.
As great a swashbuckling cricketer than our old favourites Shahid Afridi and Adrian Griffiths, but with more.
World Cup finals, Tests where we are almost down and out, he comes out blazing and turns entire games around, and for our entertainment.
RAY STONE
The Dolphins hard man has made it hard for him not to be included in the Dolphins team every week.
Perhaps they think about it, and Ray Stone gives one of his special glares of which no one argues with him
As we don’t and won’t. Hence his Person of the Year nomination here.
BOB KATTER
You don’t have to like Bob Katter’s views on certain things, or indeed the man with the famous hat himself, but you can enjoy Bob Katter on a few different levels.
And we do.
He hasn’t brought out as much crocodile gear this year, but his dressing up into a Pig costume to highlight the greed of major supermarket chains in Australia was his best for 2024. As per the below.
Bob Katter & Andrew Wilkie Protest In Parliament Dressed As Pigs – YouTube
But in general you’ll find Bob Katter up to something with a soundbite and vision on the news every week or so. And for that we love him.
PLANET AMERICA
US Politics has never been so nasty, so important, and so partisan. Luckily the Planet America TV Show dissected all of it without the bias that seems to pollute any discussion over it all. No Trump bashing MSNBC, nor Trump worshipping from the other end. They bust Malarkey from either side, and have guests who provide thoughtful opinions.
It’s not like modern day news at all.
Thank god.
BETOOTA ADVOCATE
Similar to Planet America, the Betoota Advocate team cover news and newsworthy events in a unique and thoroughly enjoying manner.
But it also covers the Everyday news like no other, with stories taken from the loungerooms, the public bars, and the Uber rides of everyday Australians.
It is a wonder how they get so much news out of a town the size of Betoota.
THE STEP ONE UNDERWEAR AD GUY
Some companies use high profile celebrities to sell underwear, and they have really wasted their money.
All you need is the guy from Step One Underwear. His convincing yet friendly manner seems to be working a treat as Step One sales rise around Australia, as far as we know.
