800 metres at the Olympics 800 meters is one of four individual events documented exclusively by Olympic documentary filmmaker Bud Greenspan. The Olympic records are held by David Rudisha, who ran a world record of 1:40.91 minutes in 2012, and Nadezhda Olizarenko, who ran a former world record of 1:53.43 minutes in 1980. Olizarenko's mark is the joint longest-standing women's Olympic record (technically set three days after Ilona Slupianek's shot put record) and the joint second-longest after the men's long jump record by Bob Beamon. Her time remains the second fastest ever for the event. The 800 metres world record has been broken or tied
The London Freewheel September 2010. On 31 August, Kelly Brook (as "Sky Ride Ambassador") joined Boris Johnson to launch the event. A new record of 80,000 cyclists took part in 2011. There wasn't an event in 2012 to allow for the holding of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The road cycling events of the Olympic Games proved exceptionally popular, with many thousands of spectators along the lengths of the courses. In 2013 SkyRide was discontinued as the Mayor backed a new event called RideLondon. It was developed to include a larger cycling series of events including the Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100, the aim being