The oldest world record in track and field history stretches all the way back to 25 July 1983 – to the same week, in fact, that Elton John’s I’m Still Standing was released in the UK. But this increasingly looks like the year that Jarmila Kratochvilova’s imposing women’s 800m record may finally tumble.
Britain’s Olympic champion Keely Hodgkinson reckons she can break that record time of 1min 53.28sec in London next month. The trouble she faces is that the brilliant 22-year-old Swiss star Audrey Werro has pushed ahead in the race to achieve the two-lap equivalent of landing on the moon.
