Olympic champion Hodgkinson's coaches eye 800m world record

The 22-year-old British middle-distance runner took gold at this year's Paris Olympics, following her silver medal at the Covid-delayed 2020 Tokyo Games. Hodgkinson set a personal best of 1 minute 54.61 seconds at the London Diamond meeting in July. That time, however, is still significantly shy of the 800m world record of 1:53.28 set by Jarmila Kratochvilova, which has stood for 41 years. But in common with several world records set in the early 1980s, Kratochvilova's time has been clouded by...