48.25?! Marie-José Pérec's 400m Olympic Record! 🇫🇷🥇 | Throwback Thursday

Let's take a look back at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games when French sprinter Marie-José Pérec set a new Olympic record in Women's 400m. With a time of 48.25 seconds, Pérec beat the previous Olympic record set by Soviet Olha Bryzhina in 1988 (48.65).

What is your favorite Olympic moment of all time? Let us know in the comments below and it might be featured in the next #ThrowbackThursday!
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What is your favorite Olympic moment of all time? Let us know below and it might be featured in the next #ThrowbackThursday!

[olamavincent]

Marie-José Perec est tout simplement la grande sprinteuse française de tout les temps !!!! Qu'elle classe !!! Qu'elle foulée magnifique !!!

[alfred]

le moment sublime antologique d'émotion, la foulée aérienne de Marie José qui résiste jusqu'au bout, Merci Marie José tu restera dans nos coeurs , rien ne pourra ternir ce moment !

[lutherhenry]

Magnificient sprinter, one if the most beautifull stride in athlic's History. So smooth, love it ❤️🤍💙

[PRANAV]

Finally finally we have a video of this race in YouTube.

[ericlemaire]

Holy cow ! That was just a walk in the park for her. They never had a chance !

[harimaumalaya]

Thank god. Finally this race is up on youtube. The greatest 400m race ever

[matty]

Perec had the most beautiful running style in athletic history.❤

[senisalami]

Thanks for Falilat Ogunkoya for winning an Olympic bronze for Nigeria in this great race

[AngelCarela-ef]

SOLO VINE A RECORDAR ESTE MOMENTO, PORQUE PAULINO ES LA NUEVA REINA DE ESA MARCA OLIMPICA. VIVA REPUBLICA DOMINICANA 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴

[lekis]

Marie- Jose Perec (France0 was built like a super model!

[ohhiitsjustme]

Wow, what freakin STACKED lineup! Every one was a star back in the day

[karenlm]

So cool to see someone achieve their life's work and passion.

[pablogracidas]

09:59 OMG! Almost all of them under 50s
There was quality 😳😳😳

[darraghfarrell]

She doesn't get the respect she deserves, Allyson Felix (who is great) gets loads of praise heaped upon her yet she's only won 1 Olympic gold in an individual event, Perec does the 200/400 double and it's like it's been forgotten how great she was.

[ajrocksx]

And then Perec went on to win the 200M gold at the same games. Only one other athlete, Michael Johnson, has also accomplished this double. The two of them are in a very exclusive club.

[BowieChrisReaDimashlover]

Bravo à elle! Je l'ai toujours trouvée élégante, gracieuse et légère. Quelle grande et belle athlète! Merci.

[Dynamics]

So a few things:

- For once the Olympic channel did something right. A full track final, no commentary, no music, just the FULL RACE with introductions and the crowd.
- And finally we get this final after the IOC has been so strict and adamant on getting this race taking down off other YouTube pages. For some reason this and the 1992 Women's Final gets taken down so quickly.

[bohaynz]

Aww wow Cathy wasn't too far behind her....😯😁🔥💯
🖤💛♥️

[encoretp]

Probably the actual World Record. The 47.60 is very questionable in my opinion