Femke Broeders-Bol

One other thing I wanted to bring up, Rachel, because I know you mentioned, we were talking earlier, the Diamond League was this weekend, and I caught some races.

I don't know, did you catch the Women's 800? Audrey, Wero, and Femke, Broder's Bowl.

Did you get to see the finishing...

I actually

didn't because I was still in Tahoe, but I saw clips.

I know it was very, very close, and Femke kind of just keeps closing the gap on Audrey Warrow.

I think this is really fun.

I want to do some sort of receipts on Femke's 800, but I also kind of think it's been talked about so much that it's like, what else are we going to say that's going to be like, groundbreaking but it's really interesting because i i feel like she has to be like one of the only people to make it in the top 10 all time in her first season running an event But actually, I just talked that out of myself because Cindy McLaughlin-Lavrone just...

They're not providing coaching support, not providing travels, but they're not doing anything.

They're sending you a uniform.

And so I'm just wondering, why is it that if I'm Femke Boll, New Balance, Audrey Vero, Puma, Mondo, Puma, Dos Santos, Adidas, Josh Kerr, Brooks, Why wouldn't they just say, nah, I'm not going to do that.

I qualified for this on my own merit.

My sponsor, just like somebody in the U.S.

It's just like, okay, I've hit that level of fatigue now.

But in these 800s and this round, it just was the thing that knocked me out.

I, I, I, yeah, I just certainly, I just, there's nothing that could happen at this race for Femke Boll to take away the absolute magic of a season that she's had.

Calum, have you got the first set of results?

Yeah, so first one, the women's 800s, another Werro versus Breda's Bowl showdown.

And it's the closest that Femke's got, really.

So first just this time around, Weru, 154.75 meet record.

And then potentially the Aflos, although I've not seen Stardust for that yet.

But there's potentially two more races.

And if Werra is tiring a little bit, Breda's Bowl might have her.

So keep your eyes on that.

I'll just give a bit of insight about my thoughts on, um, the eight- hundred- women's 800, and I suppose I'm gonna tell you my favorite first.

So, truly my favorite is Femke Bol.

Interesting.

I think she, over the last sort of two, three months, has been rapidly improving over the 800 meters.

...

the 800, the 800 is different to the 15 and 5K we have rounds again.

And I don't think that Femke Bol, h- Brothers Bol has got the strength this year to cope with the rounds and beat Audrey Werro.

And Werro's in the finest form that she's been in, and she can produce the goods.

Perhaps at the start of the season before we started really tracking her.

Bol is similar maybe.

Yeah, maybe they missed the sort of Chinese meetings that kick the Diamond League off or something.

But, um, yeah, like I wonder, they, they should have a, they should have a, s- a scheme where your appearance fees or the prize money you earn increases based on the races you've run before [laughs].

Well, we're complaining about some of them [laughs] not racing, but some-

Well, yeah, it just, it just felt a little bit flat at the weekend, and other people commented on, on Discord and that, that it felt a little bit flat.

I mean, there were some good performances, and we got to see, and we'll get into it now, but Bol and, and Vero racing again, this time without Hodgkinson.

Yeah.

Oh, hold on, hold on.

So my bad.

Audrey Vero, Femke Boll, Keely.

Yeah, not mad at that.

Femke, world record.

Audrey Vero for the win.

Audrey, Femke, Keely, not mad.

Femke Boll, Audrey Vero, Keely Hodgkinson.