Ever since Keely Hodgkinson became Olympic champion two years ago, she has not just taken talk of breaking track’s longest-standing world record in stride but embraced the possibility.
For 43 years Jarmila Kratochvilova’s time of 1:53.28 has stood unbothered, a mark that even World Athletics president Sebastian Coe has previously said he is wishing out of existence following decades of innuendo and suspicion around it being clean.
