The 2024 Olympic Games get under way on Friday with Paris staging an audacious opening ceremony on the River Seine to kick off what promises to be a fortnight to remember.
For many, all that matters is converting years of sacrifice and hard work into a gold medal, but there will also be the chance to make history when it comes to breaking world records along the way.
For Great Britain, it marks another Games where the nation’s only world record is put on the line, with Jonathan Edwards’s triple-jump landmark having stood for 29 years.
Here, Telegraph Sport looks at the 10 athletics world records most likely at threat from this year’s crop of athletes and which ones could finally be broken.
Women’s 100m: 10.49sec, Florence Griffth-Joyner (USA), 1988
Most of the women’s sprint records have remained out of reach since the 1980s and, while anyone toppling Flo-Jo’s benchmark from the Seoul Games remains a long shot, Sha’Carri Richardson is one of the serious threats. Aged only 22, Richardson’s best is 10.65sec and she will be looking to improve that in Paris and start to threaten the record.
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Publish date : 2024-07-23 17:10:47
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