Femke Bol opens season with 400m hurdles win at Diamond League Stockholm | NBC Sports

Sydney is taking the 400 m hurdles over the open 400 m...things that make you go Hmmmm?

You gave away the result in the headline.

Femke bout to get cooked by Sydney at the Olympics 🍳🔥

With Syd's return Bol will have to settle for silver.

Congrats to Femke on the win.

Sydney opened up her season with 52.70 and she was holding back because she was instructed to do so. All that after 2 years of not competing in the event is crazy. Femke did great here but she has a long way to go.

White people are finally starting to believe again!

Sydney jogged way easier to a 52.7.

Why are the bibs so massive? Front and back?

Announcer talking like we don’t know how good Femke’s last 100m is.

Bol is on pace to be about the same as she was last year. Sydney has moved to another time zone. Just think about it. Sydney has run about 5 or 6 races in the last two years, all of them not her main event. She nearly set a 400 flat American Record in her SECOND RACE, then this year she's run the 200 and 4x1, and smoked a group of Olympic and World's medalists, along with the NCAA record holder and other 200 specialists, at 22.07, and was DISAPPOINTED that she didn't go sub 22. Then in her first 400 hurdles in 2 years she runs the World Lead. Meanwhile Bol has been running 400s, flat and hurdles CONSTANTLY. She's run more indoors than Sydney has run in the last two years. And after all that she opens with basically the same time as last year? Sydney will smoke Bol by 2 seconds and run sub 50. This is a competition between Sydney and The Clock.

Yah!

Well-done ladies 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

Good job 🇯🇲 🇯🇲 🇯🇲

A fraction under a second behind Sydney. I Think Sydney will get gold and Femke silver, but this is what I, we, feel, as anything can happen.
I mean, even someone else no one may be thinking of can pull it off.

Something must have been wrong with Peeters her gait looked off

Femke Bols running is so smooth. You can easily tell when she decides to accelerate and jogged the entire first 300m. And then coasted once she passed the 2 in front of her.

They all look like they are shyly dancing.

Femke looks good but she will be no match for the GOAT Sydney.

If not hit hurdles battle will be on for bronze..No one beating Bol or Sydney.

She will come in second in the olympics at best

Love you NBC but no fun watching the race or any competition when you already know the winner (shouted out in the headline). Would be great if you could change that practice.

Amazing White Excellence! So Inspirational! Young White girls everywhere have an amazing role model to look up to.

I think Bol's time is .37 seconds behind Sydney this week, in her first time in the event this season, so we are in for a spectacular 400 hurdles in Paris. It's shaping up to be the premier event at the Olympics

Great race, but what was the camera operator doing on that back stretch? Got to see a lot of the stadium and the sky, very little of the runners.

When will T&F get rid of those stupid paper name bibs?

she won't beat Sydney in Paris.

So impressive and graceful to watch

Femke is such a Goddess.

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Perhaps the most anticipated race is Bol versus McLaughlin...they are on a collision course. McLaughlin is the one to beat.

Her closing strides after the last hurtle almost looks in-human or mechanical it’s so amazing! Tremendous to watch! 🎉👏💪

Sydney and femky is gonna be crazy

Bol is the greatest 400m female hurdler in history....second only to Sydney.

Femke should get a Sliver this year, BUT if Sidney makes a mistake, Femke can upset her! Honestly Sidney can also be the fastest 200M runner too this year if she wanted to be!!! Saying all that Femke is fast enough to capitalize on a mistake and that alone can get into her head!!! good luck can't wait for the final!

We sure are lucky as fans to have such talent to watch. Sydney and Femke will push each other and isn't it great to watch?!!

Sydney is going to bury her at the Olympics. She is running for silver

You, too. Jeremia!( Love the gentleness! This world needs that.)

Big fan of Bol but Syd looks faster so far

Bol is 🥈bound in Pa-ree

Hehe Sydney got you beat.

creo que le gana sydney

This was not exciting to watch

Not bad. Sydney was faster with zero competition and practicing 15 steps, rather than her normal 14 between hurdles. Early advantage is to the record holder.

:57 theres a warrior

Femke was strolling the first 200 and did enough to win, seemingly effortlessly...Sydney is truly amazing, but saying Bol has a lot to learn shows a degree of ignorance which is hard to understand... She is the World record holder at 300m and 400m indoors at 49.17 and was unbeaten all last year and this in the hurdles... But Sydney may have the advantage as she is exceptional, both mentally and physically... Paris is going to be special!

Sydney is levels above Bol. Always has been, nothing has changed.

If Sydney even shows up to the Olympics Femke will dust her

Anton only talks about Syd the whole time during Bol's introduction. Might be prejudice?

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