Kirani James (GRN) and Luguelin Santos (DOM) Win 400m Semi-Finals - London 2012 Olympics

Kirani James (GRN) and Luguelin Santos (DOM) win their semi-final races in the men's 400m event at the London 2012 Olympic Games (5 August).

Since 1896, athletics has been on the programme of each edition of the Games of the Olympiad. Its presence on the Games programme has allowed its popularity to increase across the world. This popularity was also strengthened by the creation of the IAAF in 1912. Women's events appeared for the first time at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, while the men's programme was standardised as of the 1932 Games in Los Angeles. Although at the beginning women were authorised to participate in only some events, today their programme is almost identical to that of the men.


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[Dynamics]

First 400m semi-final is at the end of the Men's 1500m semi-final video

[TheFlash]

Kirani James's sportsmanship is awesome! Congratulating everyone after the race is over. Respect!

[Bartzy]

I respect Kirani for saying good job to everybody and trading names cards with Oscar. Track is the only sport with good sportsmanship.

[MarshallDTeach-bvoz]

3:03 ==> Kirani JAMES (44'59)
10:23 ==> Luguelin SANTOS (44'78)

[SpicyDolphin]

@naver4ever because if they were all start on the same line and finish on the same line, the people on the outside of the track will have to run a further distance than the runners on the inside of the track

[sososoo]

in the minute 09:30, can you see what gesture the athlete used?

[Vhintaqe]

i wonder what james did with pitorius' name...

[BernardVanBPPP]

Kirani James is a very gentile young man

[TheGuines]

Why did Kirani James and Oscar Pistorious exchange names?

[mrchallengeperson]

Yeah, Pistorious, such an inspiration...

[AshAsh]

Comment written one month ago dude....

[dnqm]

Santos keeps very high turnover throughout the race.

[torchicisninja]

Oscar runs a 400 time WAY faster than I do LOL

[ZNearX]

i didnt know chris brown was an olympian lol

[charliegordon]

were you not aware of his previous olympic career in intergender boxing?

[alexcoper]

is from the bahamas to lol 242 all day

[RicardoSS]

I was going for the irony but that really is a literary technique lost on some people... The fact that you keep treating this monster with deference really tells a lot about yourself.