Incredible finish 🤯 Women's 400m final replay | Espoo 2023 

Her arm swing is perfect for the 800 but too passive for the 400

@@realspitter2727 isn't her major, understandable

Yeah specially when considering that she is mor so of a strength based 800m athlete. But Keely is a champion and used to be the best in the World she for sure was disappointed

@@finneas_0710 you're definitely American using a word like major

@@realspitter2727exactly this. She can go faster but doesn’t realize it. Uses her 800 arm swing and still runs 51. Pretty amazing actually.

John did too

Hmm, why ignore that the winner Yemi Mary John immediately went over to check on Jaeger first instead of celebrating her win?!

@AllInTheGame01 you know why

Yes Queen Yemi John !

@@standardprocedure7017 Stop it! It's princess for now 😂😂

She always puke after finishing a 400 - leaves her gut and more on the track😆

She's going to need some ice on that...

@naposthecavalierkingcharles What's your point?

True, I know 49 and 1:51 go together for some male runners.

Wet track affected all the runners

@binkyxz3 .....Half of those ladies ran PB's. Apparently, the wet track made them run faster.

@@binkyxz3 Affected in a very positive way since the top four all had Personal Best times.

Oversimplification

@AngryDaddoesDecath5260 That's the 60's way of running it, not smart!

Low 46 4ooM etc etc ...u gots NO CLUE

She gonna get cooked in the world's though but she cute asf

John was clever, Jaeger was stupid ! John deserved to win, so much !

@@FROMTHEMUSCLEPRODUCTIONS she already been cooked in NCAA competition

the 400 NEVER loses 😏

For 1500 Faith Kipyegon, Gudaf Tsegay, Welteji would be very difficult to catch for Athing Mu. Keeley won't take 400 meters seriously now I believe, it's just a tactic to get rid of Mary Moraa.

Both are only doing these races to prepare for their 800m races. Keely needs to lower her 400m time in my opinion. Athing has a sub-50 400m. So if it’s a sprint to the finish….we know who has the better leg speed potentially. Kersee hasn’t put Athing in a 400 and I don’t like that. The audience is going in to Worlds blind. And Athing is doing the 1500 race just for increased strength, fitness, and endurance.

Yeah they are working on speed and endurance racing the different races working on their individual "weaknesses" to maximize the 800 potential. I would like to see mu doing 400s some years too but I think USA coaching is also trying to keep the clash of the titans low for now. Aka Athing Mu and Syndey. I think Mu 400 might be next level

That's what I said 😍. Sheezus

OMG, she is drop dead gorgeous! I'm head over heels in love too ❤️

I used to do both four and eight hundreds. I found the 800m vomit even worse!

Cinders dig into the skin!!!! Crazy falls for sure! 😏

Cinder build character 🙃

Yes, cinder tracks are worse for abrasion burns. My sister had a fall on one when sprinting as a teenager, she still had some cinder particles in her knees a few months after. The one downside to synthetic tracks is that they are harder because they are laid on concrete, so there is a slightly increased risk of breaking bones.

To be fair, it didn't really look like Jæger launched herself, she just lost her footing because her legs couldn't give an ounce more. And it didn't help that the track was slippery. I do hope launching for a win doesn't become commonplace in the sport, though. It would incentivize stupid haha

Nothing is wrong with it. Only boomers and whoever's country was the loser would have a problem tbh

Yea, she is world class at 800m. The 800m race here was not a challenge. So she went for a new challenge at 400m.

If she improves on her 400 it will improve her 800, plus if she gets good times she can be put on the UK relay team

​@@schcbh4800 GB W400m Team is the strongest it's been in years with the likes of Victoria Ohurugu, Yemi Mary John, Nicole Yeargin, Ama Pipi, Amber Anning, Jodie Williams & Laviai Nielsen. Would be hard to see Keely breaking into that quartet esp as the WC 800m & 4x4 Finals are just 1hr apart!

Not sure what kind of championship this was. No Femke Bol. No Klaver. No runners from Poland. WTF?

@@rickpascual4340 You plonker.

@@rickpascual4340way more money to be made in the diamond league. No reason for top athletes to run at a big discount here.

@@rickpascual4340 european u23 championships, meaning athletes born in the years 2001-2003

Goes by birthday, the other top talents may be after that cutoff. I believe

? ??? What is so funny about Segura?

Her best years are behind her now but she will always be remembered for her victories in the past and her huge victory in the courts recently.

Who was cheating?

@@tulyar57 Th Novegian

It seems to me that the Norwegian girl did not fall on purpose and was not cheating or trying to cheat at all... She simply was extenuated: Lactic Acid... The legs muscles simply do not respond any more at that stage. Only people that have run sometime the 400m know how hard is to keep on after the last curve: the agony, the extenuation and how the muscles do not obey to the mind at that level of effort and wear. The 400 are speed running beyond the capacity of the human kind. The human body only can only work at maximum effort about 40 seconds at the very best, and the 400 are just beyond that threshold; so even extreme and well trained athletes can not run the whole track at full speed, and can not cope with that extreme level of effort when the fuel is over... I, personally have experienced that, and I know that the muscles do not answer to your mind and will at the end; and that you are pushing hard with all your will and energy and the fact is that you can barely rise up your knees or move forward... The trans-genders and intersex runners that compete like women is another matter that has to be addressed in international sport for good.

@@Angelarju I understand your point. However I watched several times. She intentionnally leaned forward, after she realized that, in spite of her efforts, her opponent was faster, and during one or two meters, her legs are still strong. Only after that, she decides to fall. Of course, it is human to do everything you can to win. My feeling is that she decides to fall BECAUSE she knows thay judges/rules do not eliminate you. If rules don't change, all runners should delibarately fall one meter before the finish line, just in case someone behind you you fall. Concerning, trans, the rules are favorable to them because the decision makers consider that the public opinion is in favor of them. Even if they perfectly know that they give a prejudice to genuine women.

​@@veraciteabsolue1221 Well, you are right in that "She intentionally leaned forward, after she realized that, in spite of her efforts, her opponent was faster"... But many athletes do it. What counts is the chest when it reaches the line; so every athlete should do it. The error is when many don't do it, because they forget it or they don't bother to do it because they fell lazy or they see the are not in a winning position and don't mind to do it. But leaning forward can make you win some hundreds or thousandths of a second. Some athletes even lean and throw one arm forward, which is a very good way to advance, to push forward the chest. After revising the video several times, what i see is that she realized that in the very last meters her opponent comes at greater speed, thus she leans forward to try to win, but her legs can not follow the rest of her body and her mind, because she is worn out. She can not move the legs forward fast enough to keep the balance with the rest of her body when she leans forwards, and she falls. Probably throwing itself in the finish line should be punished, but i do no think that is the case in this final. I have seen cases, specially in the 400 and the 800 in which the Lactic Acid and extenuation make that athletes despite their best efforts barely move and barely advance or even fall down, because the legs muscles do not answer at that level of fatigue. And not necessarily at the Finish line, but maybe 10, 20 or 30 meters or more before the finish line. There is a very good example in the men's 4x400 final at the 2018 European Champs in Berlin, when a very good sprinter (B. Hortelano, 200 European gold Medal in 2016, and with personal Best in 100, 200 and 400 of 10:06, 20:04, and 44:68), barely can advance and rise his knees in the last 30 meters when he was about to win the race, but he was "hit" by the lactic acid and completely worn out after running the first 200 too fast. He could not advance, dramatically lost his speed and managed to arrive 3rd, not even running but almost walking, just because his powerful mental will, because his muscles did not respond. And he could have perfectly fall down 20 meters before the Finnish line. Only his will avoided that and allowed him to finish the race, though he could not win, but finish 3rd. There is a very good video of European Athletics of that race: "Men's 4x400m Relay Final | Berlin 2018" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3n9wQ8VS3eo.html . There is some good videos of athletes falling down 20 meters before the finish line in a 800m, and in 4x400 races, but I don't remember exactly where and when, to put a link.

I’m sorry, but this comment has to be a joke. I agree, John checking on Jaeger after the race was a nice gesture, but the first thing John did after that was to ask where her crown was whilst pointing to the top of her head. How does that make her the humble one when Keely did exactly the same thing minus the crown-gesture? I don’t think there were a lot of people who expected Jaeger to win, so to say that she is “disrespectful” and has “too much pretention” for running too fast in the beginning, is a stupid thing to say i think. She just simply tried to beat the favorite. Maybe Jaeger started a bit too fast, but she must have done something right when she beat her own PB by more than half a second. If something, that just means that she can run a lot faster, since everyone except Jaeger ran “perfect”, according to you. And thirdly, calling her “childish” and a “snooty amateur” for staying on the ground after the finish, is simply ridiculous in my opinion. The poor girl had just slammed her body to the floor and then threw up a few minutes later. From what I’ve understood, this is her first season training for the 400 meters. She was probably just super tired because she had given her all and isn't as used to the lactic acid as other athletes. That is not “childish” if you ask me. Jaeger deserved her silver because she came second. The exact same way John deserved her gold because she came first.

Jaeger just ran 49.85. Pretty good for a “snooty amateur” I must say, @albertfrancois2316

With a personal best? I think not.

Do you suffer with prosopagnosia? They all look different to me.