Highlighting the 2024 Paris Olympics | Some of My Favorite Performances and Athletes

[@Neofolis]

Some of my favourites in no particular order. Julien Alfred - 100m Sifan Hassan - Marathon Marileidy Paulino - 400m Letsile Tebogo - 200m & 4x4 Femke Bol - Mixed 4x4 Sydney Mclaughlin-Levrone - 400mH & 4x4 Mondo Duplantis - Pole Vault Quincy Hall - 400m Matthew Hudson-Smith - 400m & 4x4 Emmanual Wanyonyi - 800m Marco Arop - 800m Cole Hocker - 1500m Obviously many other great performances I could mention, but I'm leaning towards these being my favourites.

[@Page1travelfitness]

Noorwood is a reliable relay beast!

[@carsongambaro]

I'm glad you included Kenny Bednarek. He kinda went out on a bad note with the 4x1 blunder, but he came from a no-name JUCO guy to a legitimate annual contender.

[@imhereforitall9218]

An annual contender who screwed up a gold medal. Maybe this is when the juco needs to stay in a juco lane and stay off our relays.

[@ln9939]

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone’s double gold medals in the 400mh (and breaking the world record again) and her 2nd leg on the 4x400m relay were amazing. Also, Noah Lyle’s gold medal in the 100m race was exciting. Too bad he got COVID and wasn’t able to perform his best in the 200m race. I appreciate your commentary, great channel!

[@pierspim4341]

Great video! Too many of these stellar athletes have been given short shrift.

[@couldbeanyone8174]

The highlights I like the best are Brittany Brown getting the bronze 🥉 medal. Gabby Thomas getting three gold medals 🏅🏅🏅, and Anna Cockrell getting her first silver 🥈 medal

[@AllInTheGame01]

Gotta s/o the always entertaining maniac that is Sifan Hassan for medalling in 3 distance events for the 2nd consecutive Olympics (1500m/5K/10K & 5K/10K/Marathon)! S/O 3-Peaters ('16, '21 & '24) in Thiam, Crouser & Kipyegon with the latter two still in contention with Mondo & El Bakkali to win 5 in a row from '21 - '25! S/O rest of the W100mH podium in CSM under heavy home expectation being the only French Track Athlete to medal & almost out-leaning Masai for Gold & JCQ's consistency in being the only female sprint hurdler to medal from '21 - '24. S/O Amber Anning who after a long & gruelling NCAA Season was able to peak properly to medal twice & set 3 NRs; W400m/W4x4/Mixed 4x4; same goes foe 22yr old Jasmine Jones setting a 52.29 400mH PB (0.1s quicker than Shamier's PB) for 4th place in her 1st full yr running the event; and another Collegian in 18yr old Sam Ogazi who finished 7th in the M400m Final setting his 44.41 PB in Paris. 20yr old Gold Medallist Emmanuel Wanyonyi looks the heir apparent to David Rudisha in the M800m, will have great battles with Arop & Sedjati over the next few yrs. Julien Alfred picking up St. Lucia's first ever medals has to be mentioned, as well as the 1st ever non-European Men's Javelin Podium in Nadeem, Chopra & Peters; and the continuation of CAN's Hammer dominance in Camryn Rogers & Ethan Katzberg winning B2B WC/OLY Golds.

[@ImagineJoyy]

This comment! 🙌🏿

[@TheFinalLeg]

Absolutely to all of those! Sifan is really on another level, especially considering the Marathon was her last event and she almost got pushed off in the final meters of the race! It was great that Cyrena finally got a medal for France and in the most competitive event on the track too, and Julien with her country's first-ever medal can't go overlooked, especially winning the 100m with so much dominance in the rain over a very very competitive field. Amber Anning also gets overlooked considering she had the same long NCAA season that all the others did, but she delivered in all 3 events, literally running the fastest races of her life. All amazing shoutouts!!! 💯

[@couldbeanyone8174]

I can't forget about both Quincy Wilson and Quincy Hall both getting their first gold 🥇 medal. Tebogo winning the gold medal 🏅 in the 200m and silver 🥈 in the 4x4 relay. Congratulations to Vernon Norwood for getting his first gold medal 🥇

[@couldbeanyone8174]

Shout Rai Benjamin for getting two gold medals 🏅🏅. A huge congratulations to Melissa Jefferson for getting the bronze 🥉 medal in the 100m flat, congratulations to Shameir Little for getting her first gold 🥇 medal, and congratulations to Masai Russell for winning the gold medal 🏅 in the 100m hurdles.

[@fireeestarter1]

Noah ❤

[@kjn8809]

No Julien Alfred is wild

[@TheFinalLeg]

She definitely deserves a mention as well! Her double is historic winning St Lucia's first-ever Olympic medals and especially the 100m in dominating fashion. Appreciate you 💯

[@jahlion9488]

Make your own video if you think it's wild 🤨

[@kjn8809]

@@jahlion9488 it’s not that serious pal

[@RyuBlaze24]

Make your own list the. Lmfaoooo

[@samueltullis806]

​@TheFinalLeg I'm very happy for Julian Alfred,(St Lucia) Akani Simbiene (South Africa), and Letselie 🇹🇹 Tobago (Botswana) for representing their Countries so well; Very Humble in their demeanor! 😊 Nice Work!

[@BrianBradshaw-c2l]

No Julien Alfred No Salwa Eid Naser No Cyreena Sama Mayela No Faith Kipeong No Ryan Crouser No Mondo Du Plantis No Cole Hocker No Sifan Hasan No Wayoni No Canada Men's Relay team No Tara -Davis Woodhall No Kishane Thompson These are some of the major athletes and relay teams worth mentioning. No Kazmarek Think on these things my beloved brother! I admire the wonderful work you do and I'm a subscriber to your channel. You also do good interviews with the right questions. All powers to you brother! Regards, Brian Bradshaw from the twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.

[@TheFinalLeg]

All of them deserve mentions for sure! They put down AMAZING performances in Paris! Appreciate you bro!💯

[@BrianBradshaw-c2l]

You're welcome Brother!😊

[@kuramobay2445]

My favourite moment of Paris was the Julien Alfred start in the 100m final. No one is talking about that. I've watched a lot of archive athletics in my time and that start is unbeatable. I don't think she had a typical drive phase. It seemed she popped out of the blocks already running. That's a revolutionary start. I've seen it only one time before: Ben Johnson. I said it. Julian Alfred has the Ben Johnson start and Sha'carri will forever be eating her dust.

[@NelleBligh333]

My Australian highlights: Nina winning gold in the PV, Jess Hull getting Silver in the 1500m (also excellent for Faith's three-peat), and Reece Holder coming 3rd in his 400m heat to make it to the SF where he came 5th, first Aussie of either sex to feature in an Olympic semi final sprint without recourse to the repechage in a very long time. My non-Aussie highlights: Sifan Sifan Sifan. Ok, also the men's 10 000m (did everyone forget this race because it came on the first night of T&F?) possibly the best men's 10 000m of all time. The women's 400m where all 8 athletes were under 50 seconds and the top 3 were under 49 and Marileidy Paulino claimed this event as hers in style by clocking the 4th best time EVER. And finally, my favourite event, thank you to the athletes for living up to the hype and promise of the men's 800m final, 7 out of 8 in the final were under 1:43, the top 2 were so fast even Sedjati couldn't catch them in the final 100m and finished 3 and 4 on the all time list, and Bryce Hoppel broke the American record and only finished 4th! I can't wait to see a rematch for the 800m, this event just keeps delivering.

[@clsanders98]

My shout out goes to Anna Cockrell. Amazing silver medal performance and wonderful personality.

[@CalmnNice50]

Give tt Terry some props

[@giljones8726]

Good video!!!

[@khumokwezimashapa2245]

It could be me, but does anyone feel like the timeline with Budapest and Paris is weird? Like Budapest Worlds feels like it was many years ago. It feels like it happened before Eugene. Paris is strange too, because it felt so short. My brain still believes Paris is still coming up.

[@aodoemela]

You've been snorting too much creatine im afraid

[@TheoOJamaloO1]

What?

[@khumokwezimashapa2245]

@@aodoemela Hey. I stopped. I've been clean the last 4 years now

[@kennethwoods6525]

Shot out to Christopher Bailey! Major shout to gold medalist Roje Stona being coached by another gold medalist, Ryan Crouser.

[@An-eb8uk]

Quiet as kept, Paulino’s 48.1 was the most underrated track performance in Paris…is she the legit WR holder now? And Imma need Vernon to snag an individual medal next year in Tokyo!

[@joykeel3332]

No she has the olympic record but the world record still stands. Hopefully within the next few years it will fall

[@An-eb8uk]

@@joykeel3332 oh girl I’m well aware ..I meant legit as in clean ;)

[@joykeel3332]

@@An-eb8uk ahh okay. I did not pick up what you were putting down lol. I got it now

[@kpat3052]

​@An-eb8uk the other 3 people before her are legit as nothing was proven otherwise. I really don't like when people do that. The records are the records.

[@An-eb8uk]

@@kpat3052 if you want to believe someone from the eastern bloc in the 80s holds the record go ahead

[@michaelolande8763]

From Kenya no list is complete without Faith Kipyegon and Beatrice Chebet.

[@wilhelmw3455]

These two great athletes would also be on my list amongst many others not mentioned here but this channel focuses on the sprinting and jumping events.

[@cyndi9662]

Thanks for mentioning athletes who didn’t medal but had a great performance such as Jereem Richards

[@aodoemela]

Samuuuuukonga!

[@TheFinalLeg]

He definitely deserves a mention! HUGE come through from behind to get on the 400m podium!

[@likhayam]

Dude is just giving a list of US athletes

[@smoothwill]

Dude how the hell you leave out Julien Alfred .

[@imhereforitall9218]

He said some of his favorite performances. Not the best performances. Reading and comprehension are obviously not the same thing. Try and keep up.

[@smoothwill]

He can send me a message if he chooses .

[@smoothwill]

What the hell you fighting his fight for . You people in these comments are pitiful

[@joykeel3332]

​@smoothwill sir his opinion doesn't have to be the same as yours. If it bothers you that much make your own video talking about your favorite performances.

[@imhereforitall9218]

@@smoothwill 🤣🤣🤣

[@smoothwill]

That body

[@michaeltyler1076]

Hello, I don't understand your highlights and performances. I thought you was going to go through different events and highlight them. You not talking about performances you just talking about Athletes. I am confused how you doing this as these are not highlights and you talking about events that the person didn't get a medal.

[@kpat3052]

You don't listen well. He literally said I am going to talk about my favorite athletes and my favorite performances. He then went on to name his favorite athletes and performances and you criticize the video because you thought it was about something else when he specifically gave you the topic of the video as well as listing it in the title? 😂 Your comment is ridiculous. Instead of criticism, maybe tell the man what you would like to see but your inability to understand is on you.