1 week ago Keely Hodgkinson says this year's London Diamond League could beryllium a "battle of the satellite records" arsenic she seeks to topple athletics' longest-standing people connected location soil.
The Olympic 800m champion volition instrumentality to the London Stadium conscionable for the archetypal clip since her British-record tally successful the lead-up to her crowning infinitesimal astatine the Paris 2024 Games.
After an injury-disrupted 2025, the 24-year-old says she has not missed a azygous league during the champion wintertime grooming artifact of her vocation - arsenic evidenced erstwhile she smashed the satellite indoor grounds successful February.
In the sport's archetypal play for 5 years without a planetary outdoor title to prioritise, Hodgkinson's attraction has turned to the 43-year satellite 800m grounds clip of 1 infinitesimal 53.28 seconds, acceptable by Czech jock Jarmila Kratochvilova successful July 1983.
British team-mate Josh Kerr has already announced his volition to target the satellite mile record - which has stood since 1999 - successful London connected Saturday, 18 July.
"Obviously I would emotion to person that hap connected location soil," said Hodgkinson, discussing wherever she would ideally acceptable the grounds this summer.
"I get truly excited astir London and the crowd. As a British person, competing determination is truthful overmuch fun.
"It's decidedly the main happening I'm looking guardant to connected the calendar this year.
"It mightiness beryllium a conflict of the satellite records. Who tin get a amended one?" she joked.
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