Femke Bol Drops HISTORIC Time In 400 Hurdles! || 2023 Diamond League London 

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭Bol ain't even in Syd the Kid League.

​@@JoyceWilliams-zd8khyou are joking right she hasn't even run a 400m hurdles this year and you say not in her league and you do realise bol has been breaking every meet record so far and getting faster each race and she been getting stronger and stronger

@@DG-iu8ck she doesn't have to run a 400m hurdles until Bol takes her record down. Don't hold your breath 🫁

@@JoyceWilliams-zd8kh Keep Dreamin sis. Bol not only ran one of the fastest times ever, but she wasn't even wasted after the finish. Where the others fell down panting, ms Bol kept standing and congratulating the others. There is more to come(!). Question: WHY is mrs McLaughlin-Levrone not running the hurdles this year?

​@clairmorton6267 Nope, she isn't a clown, Sydney is on another level

@chrisbloodknot2380 get a life mate

I believe first 200mh was bit less than 100% more progress to come. Last 100mh was fantastic probably same speed or bit faster than Sydney's WR.

I ran the ole 440 in high school and I always found it to be relatively easy compared to other disciplines, but, adding those hurdles would perhaps have finished me.

Have you seen the duels between Dalilah and Sydney ?

Who ever ends up at nr.3, will feel like she's won!

Haha😂 this guy has never heard of SYD

@@efisgpr I am a huge Sydney fan for a long time, and am confident she will win the upcoming WC 400m. But my gut feeling is that Bol will end being the better 400m and 400H in the coming years

@Vinchiamo Well said . I agree 100%. Roy b, CapeTown south africa 🇿🇦

@@efisgpr I'm sure he uses toilet paper for it

I hope so. But seeing in the future isn't easy. 🙃

she has the qualifying standard for the open 400. Wonder if she'll give it a try knowing she can dominate the hurdles?

Coming weekend she'll compete in the 200m.

BECAUSE SYDNEY IS THE BEST EVER 😂 DUH....

@@efisgpr for now sure

my thoughts exactly - unfortunately there is a lot of "tribal" nonsense interfering with what should be something to rejoice over. Fortunately most people aren't that way, especially TRUE track fans. It's childish, sickening and low brow!

@@efisgpr Was it a cheap keyboard??

Hopefully 2FA is on this time and the password in no longer "absolutelylegendary"

@@barath4545How do you know that’s his PW?

Haha it’s just a joke

On Dutch television she stated her race was far from perfect and there is still a lot of room for improvement we will see.❤

@@mmmvt5428 yes, and she doesn't sound like one who makes idle trash talk.

Alternating lead leg steps is REALLY difficult to do. She makes it look easy. Thanks for noting that.

The Dutch commentator said she uses the 14 step for the first six hurdles, then switches to 15 and left-lead the end. Looks correct on analyses of the total race!

@@djclass005 Yea, I went back and looked at the video again and I got she left foot led over 7 hurdles and right foot led over 3. My bad.

I don't think anybody will ever do a full race alternating their lead leg because that would mean either going 14 steps for the full race (which will slow down the last 150m for sure) or going from 14 to 16 steps (which is too much of a difference in step length). The best compromise is what Sydney and Dalilah did and what Femke is doing now, 14 steps for the first 5-7 hurdles and fall back to 15 steps using your preferred lead leg.

yes true, and they've been telling us it's coming. Now it has. Being 6'1", does it help?

The winner is the one who comes in first. Syd owns this lady. You run fast, I run faster. That is what champions do so look at the head to head battles and tell me when has Bol won...

@@robertdaniels3029 you do realize you're saying that because Femke has never beaten her before, she never can... - surely you understand why that's idiotic?!

Until Femke wins, don't talk to me. Hypothetical does not win race's. @@tanyaghosh2277

Syd’s too scared to compete lol

They are Americans, Can't stand it that Femke is a beast.

Everytime Bol achieves something, Americans bring up that Sydney was faster and use that ONE race to justify their claim…the bottom line is McLaughlin has never been this fast at this point of the season during any season…

​@@ItzFallenPurpleplus who has been running 400m hurdles this year bol who hasn't the us golden girl who they can't believe is actually beatable which she obviously is if you think it this way there us golden girl already beaten if she doesn't defend her title you know the thing I would love to see if bol goes sub 51 while winning the title i would love to see golden girls fan faces

I am Dutch and I lov Femke, Not only a great athletic but also a sweetheart ❤️

@@DG-iu8ckplus we all know Miller-Uibo would take the 400m flat title if she wasn’t gone for the season. So while Americans complain that Bol isn’t competing against the best in her field, neither is McLaughlin lol. But they are too ignorant to actually realize anything.

why isn’t she

@@kylecreech3537 Lack of competition, she's won everything there is to win in the 400 hurdles, and she wants to compete the 400 flat this year

@@Mhochul Oh man, I didn't know you personally know Sydney, because that is not the reason she has given to the press ... All she said to the press is that she wanted to expand to the flat 400m and see what's possible there. That statement is quite a bit more respectful to Dalilah with whom she had to compete pretty hard before running the WR and also Femke who was still quite new to the event (started in 2019) when Sydney and Dalilah were already running crazy times.

because she is chicken!! And she will not run against Femke in Budapest ..

@@Egel010 just stop, when femke can get near the world record then lets talk

Well with that logic Bolt has to be at his very best to beat Lyles. Bolt has only run faster than Noah Lyles twice in the 200m. In Fact, Bolt’s second fastest time 19.30 is only 0.01 faster than Lyles’s 19.31. Honestly 50.68 is extremely different than 51.4. In fact, the difference in those times vary so extremely that they are in different leagues in terms of track and field. However, Femke has such great upside that this doesn’t seem like it’s her limit. Sid doesn’t have to be at her very best to have beat Femke considering her “very Best” is significantly faster than this. On the other hand, Femke has to be at her very best to keep up with Sidney.

You say Syd only ran faster twice, but that was during her most recent 400m hurdle races. Both times when a championship was at stake. She ended last year running a 3/4 paced 51.61 with absolutely no competition. She’s much faster now than when she ran 50.68. As Bol improves so is Sydney.

@@rayb5069 If Femke is not much, why do you need a lot of text?

Thats the thing, it isn't. She has so much headroom left. I bet she will take the worldrecord

@@brulsmurf Explain. To me it looks perfect. She can build more strength I'm sure, but I don't see how she can improve technique a lot. I'm not an expert, but maybe you are.

@@tolun99 watch her and then McLaughlin and Dalilah Muhammad. She isn't as polished. You also she that even with 15 strides she has to shorten her stride length before the first couple of hurdles. I predict she will set a world record that will stand for decades.

@@brulsmurf Ok, thanks, that makes sense. I was thinking about her running only. She does not seems to waste any energy at all.

🇯🇲 ❤ 🇳🇱

Correction: She ran the 3rd fastest time ever. Sydney has 2 faster times.

Well as of right Now, we know who is greater, no need for years to come.. All this does is make Syd probably come back to hurdles and lower her mark, after an imperfect WR time.. she Def has more I. 400mH tank.. I think she can break 49.. if Syd breaks 48 in the open 400m it's fair to say she can do it

Your assumption that Sydney “may not ever repeat” (may not get better) while simultaneously acknowledging that Femke will get better suggests that you’re biased towards Sydney in favor of Femke. Which is fine but your argument is flawed. Sydney has show tremendous progress and has taken the women’s 400mh to heights that most people never thought possible. She’s broken the WR on 4 different occasions and has gotten better, faster, and stronger every year! To even suggest that she “may not ever repeat” is going against the same logic you used to uplift Femke.

@@rayb5069 I said she might not be able to repeat because I saw a video or read ( which, I cannot recall) where Sydney described being so spent after her world record that she could not get up off the track. That made me consider the possibility that for her that time might have been a one off. But I take your point that she continues to get better so bettering her wr is possible. So, to be clear: Sydney is a great runner who continues to improve, Femke is also a great runner who also continues to improve. She has yet to surpass Sydney. Neither has reached their peak. I stand by my last sentence that who is greater (ultimately) will be revealed in the years ahead.

@@rayb5069 While I'm pretty sure you're right in that Sydney can still improve, there's also a thing as a physical limit on what is possible at a given time. If for example 50.00s is the best any female athlete could possibly do right now in the 400mH, it means that the maximum improvement for Sydney is 0.68s and for Bol it's 1.45s. So while Sydney comes closer to the absolute best time possible, the potential for improving might be bigger for the one further away from that absolute best time ... (side note : @maxhuang1179 I think you're talking about this part of a youtube video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ovoz6zCQrjw.html)

She'll lose by 10+ m to Syd again in Paris...

@@efisgpr Races are won on the track, not in your head.

@@efisgpr That is over one year away. Anything can happen in that time. Do you have a crystal ball or something?

Fake champion when THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS DAMN WELL you are not the best 400 hurdler....

She isn't even the best right now. Still not close to being the best 400m hurdler ...

@@efisgpr dude you’re not looking at this properly. Syd is a once in a multigenerational phenom and Bol is a once in a generation phenom. Yes Syd is ahead for now but that doesn’t detract from Bols greatness. The gap is shrinking and Bol ran a time that is in the top 3 of all time. If she breaks the 51 barrier at worlds then she is in striking distance of the WR. Bol broke the indoor 400m record that stood since the 80s. That insane run & WR showed how great she is as this 400m hurdles did as well. She could break 51 at worlds. She is already one of the best of all time. Syd, Muhammad, and Bol are the three best female 400m hurdlers of all time. Muhammad has been struggling due to injuries & Covid. Bol is on the rise & Syd is focusing on the open 400m. We’re lucky to get to witness all three rare talents at the same time.

So if Sydney McLaughlin crosses to another event runs that faster than Bol too she still is NOT eligible for that award. Use Track facts and knowledge not your emotions.

@@JoyceWilliams-zd8kh I said i nominate her. I didn't not said she will win the sports woman of the year. So what is your points? I don't understood

​@@anthonnybrownnn9760With all due respect the other person doesn't know how you can say that when there's an athlete who's literally broken 3 world records lol Its axiomatic who the female track athlete of the year is so far

@@anthonnybrownnn9760 Sydney flat 400 and 400 hurdles are faster than Bol. Waaay faster. So how the hell can you put Bol on top of Sydney for an Award????? Britton Wilson flat 400 is faster than Bol??? So what are you talking about 🤔🤔🤔 Nominations??? I had Bol winning the Olympics...lost $100 bucks. Sydney is Michael Jackson Bad

So that's the 3rd fastest time ever. Sydney brought down her own WR from 51.41 to 50.68 within a month. I see no reason why Femke could not achieve the same. Today she brought down her own PB from 52.03 to 41.45 in a far from perfect race. She will easily go under 51 seconds this season. And that WR is certainly not out of reach for her. Such a pity that these two women do not compete on the WC.

I'm American and I love Femke. And The Netherlands - most awesome country I have ever been to, and Dutch people tend to be amazing.

@@gdub999tub.good for you. Obviously the idiots are always the loudest but it’s really shameful how so many Americans are so belittling towards Bol and this particular performance (which would’ve been a sensational world record two years ago), meanwhile they praise American athletes in other events who are nowhere close to WRs. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.

​@@gdub999tub.❤ You'r a lovely modern US fan not a brutal Yank. 😂

@@QuamfyMarc Thanks. I love my country - but I don’t hate other countries (with a couple of exceptions…).

@@QuamfyMarc Thanks. I love my country, but don’t hate other ones (with a couple of exceptions)!

Well she isn't now and has never been.

She wasn’t quite happy with her technique in de middle hurdles (with her ‘weak’ right leg) and I think she still looses velocity above the hurdles compared to Syd. Room for improvement, she said. On the other hand her last 150m were incredibly fast and she said she had a lot of energy for a strong finish. So: promising perspectives.

@efisgpr You must have watched a different race yesterday to me. She finished like a train and is now the second fastest ever and is also indoor WR holder on the 400 flat.

@@hermanmertens8383 Totally agree with your analysis. She doesn't have the hurdling technique of Syd, which makes me think she will get significantly closer to her on the flat because she certainly has the endurance. Personally, the best female hurdler (albeit over the 100) I've ever seen was Sally Pearson. That woman didn't hurdle hurdles, she simply negated their presence!

The thing you have to remember bol has changed her stride so will take a while to get used to it and every meet so far a meet record plus the amount of 52s she has run this year and getting faster each race and getting stronger so she probably will get much faster after she gets the stride pattern right

@@DG-iu8ck That and Sydney's best time before her WR was practically similar to Bol's time, so if Sydney can shave off ~0.7s going from 51.41 to 50.68 it seems to me like it shouldn't be impossible for Bol to at least come close to that.

Shiiiiiiiii 😡😡😡😡

McLaughlin competes like 3 times a year every year. If there’s someone who’s not giving the fans incredible races it’s definitely not Bol.

She's got more in the tank. Wasn't even wasted, kept standing and congratulating the others, who where panting on the floor

Elaine didn’t make the team. Also SAFP is definitely in medal shape.

Off topic.

😂she got her ass beat by Sydney by 10-15m 😂

Well technically speaking she lost to Dililah Muhammad as well... But that was the same race where she lost to Syd.

@@efisgpr i mentioned that in the comment.😭

It's obviously she will leave her best for world championships every runner does that im looking forward to see what warholm is going to do as he's been running a lot of 46 400m hurdles

She is real......really well behind Sydney 100% of the time. 😂

I think the Dutch 4x400 relay team can medal at Worlds, but gold is out of reach under normal circumstances. Yes, Bol and Klaver can compete with the best when it comes to the 400m, but that's only half a team, the other half are 51-52s runners at the moment (but they are still improving). USA is the favorite (by far) for the women's 4x400m relay, behind them Jamaica, The Netherlands, Poland and probably Great Britain are all contenders for a medal.

For a fake championship

Syd spent 1yr at UK, then tuned pro. I’m pretty sure BOL finished UNI. Simply saying that she didn’t have the FT training luxury of pros until now. Slight timeline differences.

@@henrihelvetica5835 ummmm Sydney completed her degree at UK. Makes no difference! No excuses! Again congrats Bol!

Sydney is 1-2 year ahaad of Femke. Getting closer! 💪

McLaughlin started hurdling in 2014, Bol started in 2019, so yeah Sydney is literally ahead in development of technique but Femke is catching up fast.

​@@hairtoss7975for me I think bol can challenge the world record once she gets her stride pattern right you never know we might see a sub 51 at worlds

And it was so annoying that the commentary was talking about Hughes who finished third rather than Tebogo who was closing down on Lyles at an alarming rate at just 20 years old. Knighton is no longer the new shinning jewel on the circuit.

​@@cephasdaka7279Were you watching the british commentary if you were then it makes sense why they were focusing on a *british* athlete in Hughes

@@cephasdaka7279 I wouldn't say that.Tebogo and him will definitely have a rivalry for many years since they are only 1 year apart. However, I would say that Lyles' gold medal is no longer 100% safe this year. Tebogo was actually closing on Lyles, I've never seen anybody who had better top end than him, I was totally shocked. Whoever Tebogo's coach is, is a genius. Making him run that 400 last week did wonders for his speed endurance

@@RANDOMZBOSSMAN1 dude a 20 year old had just run 19.50 and Lyles had run 19.47 and these guys are busy talking about the guy that came third. It's so disrespectful to those 2 guys that did even better than him.

@@cephasdaka7279 I agree they should have talked about him more but again the meet was billed up as a british athlete beating the british 200m record Naturally the commentators are gonna be focused there more than anything else

Not as long as Sydney is on the planet. She can have the leftovers....

@@robertdaniels3029 Getting nervous? Sydney not running 400mh at Worlds. Gold nice leftover!! 🤣

@@QuamfyMarc When she BEATS the BEST, I will give her credit. At this point, like you, she hasn't convinced me of anything. Me, I have a national championship title. The plaque is hanging on our foyer wall with my other accomplishments. i am in my college hall of fame. And you big mouth have nothing.....

​@@robertdaniels3029 Sydney is done on 400mh.This is Femke Bol time.🇱🇺

​@@danielnowak2958100% 💪🇳🇱

Did SML have someone "close chasing her" when she ran 50.68 seconds? Nope.

She will never catch Syd. Paris: SML: 49.9, Bol 51.3.....well back -- *AS ALWAYS*

​@@efisgpr Warholm>>>>>>>Sydney

​@@efisgpr That's right, why should she...there are a lot of good riders and she is not into it the way you are

While it would be a funny twist, Femke actually really respects Sydney and I don't think there is any actual "beef" between them at all. In fact, Femke mentioned in an interview at DL Lausanne that she was hoping to compete against Sydney, Dalilah, Britton and Shamier at Worlds (and she was also hoping to finally run sub52, but I guess that's not an issue anymore 🙂).

@@_MicZ_ It isn't about beef. It is about the desire to compete. Just because they are rivals does not mean they do not respect each other.

Sydney isn't Marcell Jacobs. She doesn't dodge anyone. Rather, she's just going for the record books and is content until someone comes along to break her 400mH record.

"really young" yet Syd had 5 Olympic and World gold medals by Femke's age.....and a silver. And 4 WRs in a **MARQUIS EVENT*** Femke DOESN'T.

@@efisgpr Sydney has the world record in the 400m hurdles. For now.

She's really young? You know her and Sydney are the same age right?

@@playerschooljackson Yes, and they are both really young. He never mentioned Femke being younger than Sydney, just that she is really young...

@@_MicZ_ Yes and I mentioned that Sydney is also really young. I never said he mentioned Femke was younger. His statement TO ME made it seem like because Bol is young shes gonna catch up to Sydney, as if Sydney isnt gonna get better.

Why limit yourself! I’m a greedy track fan! I love Bol, Syd, Britton, Mu, KH the U.K. 800m runner, the Jamaican sprint queens. Gabby, Abby…and many more. Anna Hall is a new track goddess to watch but right now Faith K is so fun to watch & cheer on! Golden ERA in womens Track! I have a long list of favorites!

Exactly what was Sydney's best time before she ran the WR ? Oh wait, that was 51.41 wasn't it, which is awfully close to Bol's 51.45 ... So saying Bol first has to go sub51 to be remotely competitive is just bashing Bol for no logical reason at all.

​people just don't like having someone who might be able to challenge there unbeatable golden girl which i find funny as if 1 runs faster there is someone who will catch them bol already has 400m indoors world record so already a achievement

Agreed.

Gaaaaapp

​@@_MicZ_ Meaningless. Syd is faster at 60, 200, indoor 200, etc. Femje just isn't fast enough.

Sydney is for sure not competing in the 400mH at Worlds, she (well, at first Kersee) announced that about a week ago. It's a shame as it could have been a very interesting race to watch. Femke is now the clear favorite for the 400m hurdles and Sydney is favorite for the open 400m, which makes both events a bit less compelling ...

@@_MicZ_ well...I'm happy and sad at the same time, I'm sad that we won't get to see Femke vs. Sydney at the worlds this year...but, if anyone deserves to be World Champion that isn't one already, it's Bol... 400m is actually pretty compelling still...Paulino is still capable of putting it altogether and winning and there is Sydney who doesn't have that much experience at running the 400m, but crazy fast...but, Kaczmarek seems to making a late surge as well...so, still lots of possibilities... For 400 meter hurdles, the competition will be who comes in 2nd and 3rd and that will be the drama as there is no clear favorites for second and third...

Because they fear what’s coming. All about panic. And all of them no real fans of track and field.

Well you just contradicted you first statement 🤔🤔🤔

​@@JoyceWilliams-zd8kh exactly

@@JoyceWilliams-zd8kh Not really. That’s like saying every time Sydney runs she runs her record time lol. Anything can happen in track. Bolt has lost a few times, people could challenge him in the 100 but not his record. Same with the Jamaican women trio. You’re saying none of them can be touched this season? I agree with night but too bad we won’t get to see since Sidney’s focused on open 4.

@@dalilkwickone14 you said "vote" that means the 2023 season man shutup

@@JoyceWilliams-zd8kh clearly missing the point. So ure saying no1 can challenge the big 3 jamaican women? They all ran this year and last year 🙄🙄🙄. You clearly don’t understand track and how it works 🤣🤣🤣. Or comparisons for that matter.

No, only open 4

Yeah, she's running the 200m there more or less as training though as she still could use some extra speed in the first half of the 400mH. She has been running the 200m at Nationals since 2020 as she never had to qualify for anything and I don't think it would be fun for her to destroy the 400mH field and/or the 400m field of young Dutch women 🙂

@@_MicZ_200? You mean 400 flat I guess.

@@hermanmertens8383Nope. She Will run the 200m

@@erikrichpoor1042 Ze loopt zaterdag om 16.06 de 400 meter. Google: programma NK atletiek 2023.

@@hermanmertens8383 Ik denk dat je naar het indoor NK programma zit te kijken, want ik vind gewoon de inschrijving van Femke voor de 200m, net als afgelopen jaren. Lieke Klaver loopt trouwens de 100m, waarschijnlijk om dezelfde redenen als Femke: goede (sprint) training en je geeft andere atleten de kans zich te plaatsen voor een groot toernooi op hun favoriete afstand.

That seems... a really big stretch. Bol is having a great season, but she just improved on her own PB by over half a second. You're asking her to improve on it again by nearly another whole second? I really don't think that's going to happen. Especially not without the competition of Sydney driving her forward.

She doesn't have the speed. Say what you want but SHE DOESN'T HAVE THE SPEED. great stride but not the speed.

@@robertdaniels3029 Yet ...

@@robertdaniels3029 She broke the 400m indoor world record that had lasted for over forty years only two months ago which completely disproves this argument. Of course she has speed.Please get your facts right.

@@tulyar57 In a Dutch interview Femke's coach talked about dividing 400m runners into those that have naturally more speed and those that are more endurance based. He compared Femke Bol (endurance) to Lieke Klaver (speed) and how they need a different kind of training (he coaches both). So for Femke a lot of training is focusing more on building strength (gym) and gaining speed (sprinting) and for Lieke it's more about endurance training while maintaining her natural speed. Sydney has definitely more natural speed compared to Femke, but Femke has naturally more endurance, so for the 400m (=long distance sprint) they both have to find the ultimate balance and in a way compromise their natural talent.

Nowhere near the WR

It is not that simple. 400mh takes a lot of routine and finetuning. You can't just decide to start doing 400mh again and expect to win or do WR's, and you can't simply translate flat performance to hurdles performance. (the other way round would be easier I assume)

@@rientsdijkstra4266 Well thats not true because Sydney literally did exactly that. After Sydney won Gold at the Olympics she took like 6 to 8 months off if not longer. Ended up getting married during that time. She then ran at a track meet and the announcers even said how this was her first race in almost a year and wondered if she was rusty. The WR at the time I believe was 51.46 and in that track meet after being gone for almost a year she ran 51.64.

@@playerschooljackson Maybe a bit of nitpicking, I know, but her WR was 51.46 (ran in Tokyo, August 2021) and after that she ran 51.61 (Nashville, June 2022).

@@_MicZ_ Definitely nitpicking, but dont worry I changed it for you master.

Send me some of that weed please.

DOUBLE

She decided that weeks ago

@@phaethon1988 Ok, I didn't know, thanks.👍