And their pretty hot too. Ok sorry

@@AlexmacKnotty22 Don’t be sorry they are hot on and off the track.

If I was racing against Klaver, I'd let her win. The view is much better chasing her than running ahead of her. Ok sorry

@@AlexmacKnotty22 Both are hot and don’t be sorry.

@@AlexmacKnotty22 Agreed.

Such wasted motion coming in 10m behind Syd

@@efisgpr Coming in behind a city in Australia??? 🤣🤣🤣

You may be disappointed

Bodes well for a medal but Gold is a different story.

kc is a fortune teller. He can look into the future 😂😂

at the Olympics women’s 4x100 will have Jamaica and US battling for gold. Men’s 4x100 will be decided between US, Italy, Jamaica, and Canada. The men’s 200 will be decided between Noah, erriyon, and letsile for gold. That doesn’t make me a fortune teller. What are predictions good for if any prediction is a claim of being a fortune teller. The indoor women’s 400m world championships will be decided in over a week. My prediction is femke will win gold and klaver and Alexis Holmes will battle for silver. Is that evidence of me being a fortune teller as well? Or is that based on the data provided and historical patterns?

@kc5466 you know that relays can be unpredictable and what you say is very obvious yes. And we all know, like with investing that historical data makes an activity in the future no certainty.

@@lammie1000 relays have been far more predictable than individual sprint events. However, I’m not claiming my predictions are certain to happen. I’m just saying the data provided makes my predictions a good bet.

That's if Mclaughlin stops writing books and starts running again. She has been focusing more on her religion and such than what gave her fame in the first place.

Bol has never beat Sydney in the 6 times they’ve raced.

@@bomberwizzgod gave her the fame and ability. Why wouldn’t she celebrate that?

You can’t put Bol with McLaughlin in the same bracket because McLaughlin is miles ahead of Bol each time they’ve raced together in the last few years. Therefore the 400m hurdles belongs only to McLaughlin

​@@user-nz3rg4sp6r2 times

That was such an amazing race, agreed. The women were hitting more signature races overall, but that was the race that popped into my head when he said THE moment in Tokyo.

👍💪☝️

Bol WiR 49.24

I can't wait for Paris. There's so many gifted runners.

It gets better year after year, hey?

I agree totally - I ran 53.5 in high school track and it felt like I was sprinting on rocket fuel. I cannot conceive of going 3+ seconds faster. Just amazing. Yes, the men are even faster, but still... this is FAST and it's hard to appreciate unless you've tried it.

We do ❤

The Frankie Fredericks Syndrome

I believe you mean that Klaver came in behind Bol?!

@@J.M.-nb4gw No. Klaver is two years older than Bol and had Dutch championship titles before Bol did.

Wait until the Dutch women's 4x400m strolls out for the Olympic final in a few months...

Headlines for sure but as far as sponsorships pretty sure Klaver still makes some bank based on them assets.

Missed her chance? Sydney is the one that has actually ran sub 49 in the 400m

Notttt!

@@bobfisher-zd2lt I can tell your just a cheerleading fan? Always picking the favorites. Iam still an athlete! Iam still in the arena of competition. We like to see underdogs rise up and beat champions! Because we know what hard work and dedication that takes. You wouldn’t know anything about that. Am I right?

@@DA-bp8lf you’re wrong 😑

@@bobfisher-zd2lt Iam glad iam wrong about you! 👍 You will hear from me again after the Olympics. 😤

@@DA-bp8lf lol

I want that. I really want to see her and Syd come close to 47. I feel even now a low 48 is possible for Fem and Syd(assuming she's healthy). Hopefully they both go for it next year.

Sydney McLaughlinhas run 48.74 outdoors and she will run 2-3 tenths faster than that this year, I believe. She is number 1 and Bol is number 2.

​​@@jimpowell2296Bol is not a number here because focus is on 400mh Olympic Final. And for 400m outdoor dont forget Worldchamp Paulino who ran also 48.7 last year. And maybe healthy Nasser returns with low 48s PB.

@@QuamfyMarc True, if all goes well then the Olympics could be great.

Don't think she's going to ever beat Sydney.

Great comment. I would just like S.M. to run in at least 2 events. She was so busy a few years ago. Now just concentrate on 2 races.

That would be nice. But she will not run the 400 open (schedules don't permit) and in the Relay's the US will be too strong, probably.

That's too much of a haul.

It's the battle of the 🍑

Also things to consider Femke ran her times indoors. I wouldn't think that would be a factor, but times are always faster outdoors so it is difficult to compare indoor versus outdoor times to predict how athletes will do against each other. I am sure Femke will be improving, but so will Sidney as well which makes for a great story along with a great race. The one runner I wanted to continue in the open 400m is Shaunae Miller-Uibo. She I believe still holds the record in the 47s, but she may be concentrating on the 200m in 2024 instead. For sure Femke and and Sidney will have all the eyes on them, but it would be nice to see other runners in contention(i.e. Dalilah Muhammad, Britton Wilson) for the 400m H as well as the open 400m runs....

@@cobramanphil yes, i think that definitely makes a huge difference, but Femke has 2 peak moments in the season, the indoor euro's or worlds and the outdoor world or olympics. she only runs 400 meter flat outdoor when shes in the middle of hard training periods and usually only at the start of her outdoor season. so thats probably why her times outdoor are not up to her true potential.

@@cobramanphil Also Mareleidy Paulino.

Surprise? Most of all know her for years, she is no surprise.

People saying femke will surprise at the Olympics are the same people that say Julien Alfred will surprise at the Olympics. They are a known entity and everyone is aware of what they’re capable of. The only surprise to be had is if they don’t qualify for the finals at the Olympics.

Doing poorly would be the surprise😅 Do you know what that word means?

@@veganpotterthevegan a surprise means that something unexpected is happening, fyi, what she does is not unexpected and thus not surprising. She is already for years improving and improving. Do you know what surprising means?

Lots of people would be surprised to see Femke Bol beat McLaughlin and run a new 400mH WR.

Hahahaha, very good comment!!!

800 is a distance event; the 400 is a sprint. She would suck at the 800, relatively speaking.

​@@rayflaherty3441Femke already have indoor 500m WR. She must first break Keely's 600m indoor WR before next step succes to 800m victory.

​@@rayflaherty3441Femke already have indoor 500m WR. She must first break Keely's 600m indoor WR before next step succes to 800m victory.

@rayflaherty3441 but a good 800m runner really needs very good 400m speed to be a good 800m runner also

She can break the world record

​@DavidPaulandBillT she's not getting anywhere close to 47.60. Keep dreaming

​@@DavidPaulandBillT possibly the 400mh but definitely not the open😅

Those numbers don't carry over when you consider that there's variable interest in indoor from athlete to athlete and everyone cares about outdoor

I don’t think Bol can beat McLaughlin.

It takes 4 to run a good relay. To be honest I am more interested in the progression of Peeters and Saalberg and the times on the men's side. Cause that is where there is the most time to win for the Netherlands. If the USA bring their A-team and don't screw it up technically the rest is running for silver.........but that are 2 big IF's.

It’s gonna be an interesting battle for silver and bronze.

The Netherlands vs USA will be fun at the Olympics. McLaughlin will defeat Bol in the 400m and the USA will win the 400m relay. My opinion. This duel will feed excitement til the Olympics begin.

@@wilcoschipstal6417 Same ifs for the Netherlands right?

@@wilcoschipstal6417 Regarding the women's 4x400. Peeters is already 1s faster than she was a year ago, she ran an indoor PB of 52.01 this weekend. She seems to be consistently progressing still, she's easily the third fastest Dutch runner in that relay team right now. Personally I think the 4th spot is still up for grabs. Lisanne de Witte (53.04) ran faster this weekend than Saalberg (53.42), but unfortunately had to pull out of the final due to falling ill. Saalberg has a better PB but De Witte seems more in form so far. Will be interesting to see who runs in the final, and how well they can perform against the US team (also curious who will run on that team).

Bol's advantage is that she has a lot of leg, and only a lightwight body to move. That is actually an advantage on the 400m where the effort of having to move such a heavy musculated body is starting to count on the last 100 or 150 meters.

I guess I don't necessarily agree (no offense). Maybe if you were talking about a 100-meter sprinter, but the best 400-meter runners of recent memory are not uber-muscular or 'blocky'. (Not criticizing Klaver's build.)

Yes, the average person might. 400 doesn't require 100% power like a short sprint. Also, trends are changing Noah Lyles is a very thin guy, thin legs 5' 11, 155. Some more muscled guys can beat him the first 30 meters than he blows them away.

@@arocct I think of Steven Gardiner too (6'4", 165 lbs.)

@@rientsdijkstra4266 I guess all you sprinting experts didn't read the words "average person". It fascinates me how quickly narcissists want to show the world how little they know.

Awh, me too!

Knowing McLaughlin, she will probably only show up at the Olympics…

Bol will eat her up

My favourite sprinter last year is the same this year - Julian Alfred! That girl got (wo)manhandled last year in the Worlds in Budapest. This won't happen again! - She has now seen real competition, she is a year older and more mature and ready to peak her career over the next 10 yrs. Imho - 2024 will be ETH vs Alfred vs SR for the 100m with SJ and SAFP making up 4th/5th and SJ running away with the 200 (again).

@@kenisme1000that’s impossible considering she has to qualify for the Olympics.

@@barath4545 I have no faith in Alfred. For me she is just like Hobbs. A lot of start and no show in the big moments. I’m hoping to be wrong.

They should be racing against each other regularly and it should be a blockbuster matchup every time... but it takes two to tango and only one wants to show up these days.

I don’t think Sydney sees femke as a rivalry like how everyone else does. Sydney saw Delilah Muhammad as a rivalry because Delilah actually beat her and had better times. That doesn’t apply to Sydney vs femke at all. Sydney has the better times at the events they both compete in and Sydney is unbeaten against her.

@@kc5466 were gunna make claims about how someone views someone else now? We know what Sydney ran 2 seasons ago. When she competed in 400mH. We know what Bol is capable of now. Time to stop living in the past

@@Magnusfication you’re literally claiming how someone view someone right now. Neither one has ever labeled it a rivalry. The media and the fans did. So like I said Sydney probably doesn’t see it as a rivalry as much as femke not seeing a femke vs shamier little as much of a rivalry.

@@kc5466 The problem is that Syd is the last hurdle (pardon the pun) left. Femke has beaten everybody else several times over and is streets ahead of them. This has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by this point, so the only question we have is whether she is closer to Syd than she was before, and the problem is that Syd almost never runs, and when she does it's almost invariably on home turf in advantageous circumstances because they're two very different athletes psychologically with very different preferences for competition. Femke hasn't got close to Syd's record times, but she has improved her best several times since they last squared off, now regularly runs a faster pace than she was doing last time we saw them head to head, and Syd fans tend to use Syd's WR PB as a yardstick as though she will run that time each and every time she takes to the track. On Syd's best day vs. Femke's best day, Syd still wins... but Femke runs a lot even when it isn't her best day which Syd tends not to, and we've hardly seen her run anything at all (not to mention fans in Europe for whom Bol is one of the main audience draws these days have only had two chances to see McLaughlin run anywhere at all since 2019 - one event in Hungary in 2022 and one in France in 2023) to give meaningful indications of her form, so we get this endless back and forth about hypotheticals of what would happen if she was there. But you have to be in it to win it. And of course the endless speculation is hardly helped by certain McLaughlin fans who will jump on any video about Bol to complain that the video isn't titled something like "Bol breaks indoor WR, but McLaughlin would have been faster".

When it comes to Sydney and bol one is a reigning Olympic and world record holder in the hurdles. The other one is attempting to become that.

@@kc5466 Ah yes, those past accolades gets her wins automatically before she touches the track. Perhaps athletes should not even bother showing up for races she enters in from now on due to her resume. 🙄 Now don't get me wrong, if and that's a big if because nobody knows, McLaughlin is in tip top shape and at her best she beats Bol everytime. She has higher top end speed, something Bol can't match just yet. Kersee's strategy better pay off because he got Sydney and Athing barely competing in the prime of their athletic careers.

@@sonojahHigher top end speed? Femkes WR indoors 49.24 must valued about 48.3 outdoors. And did you notice the ease in her strides? Her coach Laurent Meuwly afterwards said she certainly kept something in reserve for the world championships in Glasgow end next week. Meuwly: “Tests pointed out that Femke has improved in all aspects: raw speed, endurance and power.” So maybe you should reconsider your causally assumption about top end speed.

​@@hermanmertens8383 Translating an indoor 400 time to what she could do outdoors is meaningless. The proof is on the track not on paper!!

@@michaeldeierhoi4096 Sure, thats true. She has to race it first. But meaningless? Jarmila Kratochvilova, the woman she last year took the indoor WR from after 41 years (!), still holds the WR on 800 outdoors. And also she is second on the all time 400 outdoor list with 47.99. And you call that meaningless? Ms. McLaughlin Levrone only tenth on that list. And of course you saw the ease with which Femke Bol broke her own WR to 49,24. I would call that promising, not meaningless.

Femke likely only running 400mh and relay in Rome so no 400m this time. Focus on 400mh

@vonbrave The fact is he dedicated an entire video to a Dutch athlete. It was very much extoling Bol's achievements. You act as if the narrator is claiming he knows who is better. He very clearly asked for other people's opinions at the end of the video. We in the US are a people which is one of the the most ethnically diverse in the world. Do you think arbitrary borders are going to make us fail to see greatness elsewhere? Besides her speed what is so amazing is Bol's stamina. She never seems to take a layoff from training and competition.

You will soon realize that everything bol does will be in comparison to Sydney as long as she remains in hurdles. Similar to when he talks about Noah and his 200m achievements. It’s impossible to mention it without comparing it to the world record holder Usain Bolt.

@@kc5466 Bol has a choice of going against her in the 400m and/or the 400 meter hurdles. She could avoid her or go head to head in the same event. Either way she could win. McLaughlin is not Bolt.

@@vernonfrance2974 Bolt is an Olympic champion, world champion, and world record holder. McLaughlin is also all of those things as well. But you’re right McLaughlin isn’t Bolt. But it’s femke whose chasing Sydney’s records not the other way around. Because of that dynamic, you can’t mention femke without mentioning the record holder Sydney.

All these records will be broken by the men who think their women,😮😢

They don’t have the depth. The USA could do it though.

At 3:20.72 they barely beat the women's college record of 3:21.93 .

I think people that say these things about the 4x400 meters record say it because they think if they say it out loud it will manifest into reality.

@@kc5466 No. I said that because they have the #1 and #3 runners this year. If their next two runners are even close, the four of them would be quite a challenge.

It wouldn’t make a difference. Have a look at this! This is a possible A team for America. Gabby Thomas: 49.68 Athing Mu: 49:57 Britton Wilson: 49:13 Sydney McLaughlin: 48:74 The world record is 3:15:17 set by the Soviet Union. The only team since 2000 to run below 3:17 seconds is the US from 2012 and 2021 Olympics. And that time from the 2021 Olympics is 3:16:85 and good enough for 5th all time. And that time is more than a second off the record and that team had Sydney, athing mu, Delilah Muhammad, and Allison Felix in it. Netherlands best time ever is from last year and that time was 3:20:72. That is more than 5 seconds off the record. I look at America’s depth and I still struggle to think if they could threaten the record even though they’re less than 2 seconds off. But Netherlands best being 5 seconds off and you think that team can pose a threat to the record? Netherlands A team would be beaten by America’s A team by at least 3 seconds. And even America don’t think they can break the record despite them being the best suited to challenge for it. That’s why I think it’s irrational to say you think some team can break the record simply because they’re running pb’s indoors and they have a couple of new people joining in. Netherlands should try to run a sub 3:20 second relay before they think about challenging for the record.

Bol won't do the 400 at the Olympics. Only hurdles and Relay's.

Femke is running only relays and 400mh. We do not know yet what Sydney will run unfortunately.

I'm no expert but shouldn't both of them be good enough to get through the first round and semis without pushing to the limit? It's good to be cautious about injuries, but better 2 chances at gold than 1.

Hurdles and flat are very different mindsets (and techniques). The hurdles, in particular, is about stride pattern so it is very difficult to slow your pace and still make the hurdles. In fact you are much more likely to hit one.There is too much at stake, hence Sydney not doing either event at the World's last year and Femke only doing the hurdles.They may double up but I would be very, very surprised if either did.@@DreamteamCarlo

Femke for sure will not run 400m, only 400mh and relays.

@@DreamteamCarlo It's really pushing things with the current schedule ito do the double. You might end up with zero gold instead of one. Femke has already stated she won't double and I think that's smart as she is an essential part of the Dutch mixed- and women's 4x400 relay. Sydney hasn't declared anything yet, but my guess is she would have already petitioned for a re-schedule if she was planning a double...

@@_MicZ_ Ah, thanks. Didn't know she already made up her mind.

Define close

If wishes were fishes

Shamier little?

You think McLaughlin is juicing?!

@@mediamannamandid she ever run a 400m indoors? He was pointing to the top list of 400m indoors…

@@martinjansen3834 Oh, thanks. No, I doubt Sidney has run an indoor 400 since she just started running the 400 last year (I think). It was all 400 hurdles previously.

Everyone is juicing on top level.....

😂😂😂

If that’s the case she wouldn’t have ran in her first meet of the season last year.

@@kc5466 I’m sorry but I genuinely do not understand your point

@@rulifaller8474 you said her team is all about avoiding every possible risk of her losing a race. But last year in Sydney’s first meet she ran the 400 against mareiledy Paulino, salwa Eid naser, and Candice McLeod. If you’re not aware 2 of the people I mentioned were 48 second sprinters before. So if Sydney’s team was trying avoid having her lose a race. Why would they put her into the lions den in her first race as opposed to a continental gold meet where no one is capable of running sub 50? Similar to what they did with Shelly Ann last season. Putting her in races where no one can run sub 11 in 100m and basically guaranteeing her a win.

@@kc5466 ok Well now I do understand what you mean, and yes I do no who those 400m ladies are. Let me clarify myself then. I meant risk of loosing at championships, clearly the only race they care about, ie not running in august 2023 with some very minor issue because maybe just maybe that might have some effect on the preparation for a race that is a year away. So do you actually expect her to go for the double in Paris?

@@rulifaller8474 I don’t think it’s possible to double in Paris based on the scheduling but it is possible to double at her Olympic trials considering how spread out the events are and she may do that. Then after she may decide which of the events she will pursue at the Olympics. Sydney doing the hurdles satisfies the media and fans because of the Sydney vs femke dynamic. Her doing the 400m flat is about legacy and becoming an Olympic champ and possible world record holder in a second discipline. Only two athletes can say they are both Olympic champion and world record holder in two sprint events. Sydney could be the third.