Laura Muir out to break Zola Budd mile record on way to world championships

The Scot has set five British records over various distances in the past year and tackles the mile for the third time at the Anniversary Games on Sunday It remains one of the most memorable images in British athletics: a teenage Zola Budd, head bobbing barely above the chests of her rivals, smashing some record or other and doing it all in her bare feet. Nowadays, only Budd's British one-mile record of 4min 17.57sec, set at the Zurich Weltklasse meeting in 1985, still stands. Yet there is every ...