World champion Bol excited to exchange 400m obstacles to the 800m.

The Dutch Femke Bol announced on Friday that it is moving from the 400 -meter barriers to the 800m and will begin to compete with its new event next year.

While the 400-meter world champion has often played the second violin to the world’s Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone world record at the Olympic Stage, Bol has garnered five straight diamond titles in the event of its signature.

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“I’m really excited to share the next chapter of my career,” the four -year -old Olympian wrote in an instagram position.

“It’s a big change. It is uncertain and challenging, but I’m ready to put on the project, surrounded by a stunning team and enjoy this new journey.”

British Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson said he was willing to share the start line with Bol’s good friend. “She is truly brave and courageous,” Hodgkinson told reporters at Athlos, New York, meeting on Friday, where she ended with an injury in a high note with a victory in her signature.

“Want to take this step and come to an event for the last two years that really shoots – girls run out of the fast times – I praise her to want to do so and I wish her the best and I think she has the talent to do very well at eight.”

Bol took the 400m bronze obstacles in the last two games and helped feed the Netherlands at the top of the podium at the mixed 4x400m relay in Paris.

It was part of the 2024 Silver Medal women. The 400m obstacles, McLaughlin-Levrone, has also recently dares to new territory, winning the 400-meter event in Tokyo Worlds last month.

The 100m and 200m World Champion. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden said she was shocked to read the news, but thought the traffic was good for the road.

“I love it because it is its provocative, it is not that 800m is not already a very, very stacked event,” she told Reuters in New York. “It’s like,” I will move on to the 800m, I will see if I have everything I need to run with these girls. ”

The 800 meters provided one of the most exciting finals at last month’s World Sports Championships in Tokyo, as Kenya Lilian Odira produced a fantastic finish to get gold and Georgia’s Hunter-Bell squeezes the past Compatriot Hodgkinson.