Gunning for Gold Desperate for Glory in a Major Title Race As She Lines Up at the World Championships in Helsinki, Paula Radcliffe Says the Pain of Athens has Been Relegated to the Past. Simon Hart Reports Lewis
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Paula Radcliffe remembers vividly the moment Catherine Ndereba bounded past her a few miles outside central Athens last summer. It was the first time in three marathons that the Kenyan had overtaken her and, as she disappeared into the distance in hot pursuit of Japan's Mizuko Noguchi, Radcliffe's Olympic ambitions came to a shattering halt.
"Yes, I remember it, but no more so or in any different way than I remember anyone else in the race,'' she said. "I'm not scarred by it.''See the full content of this document
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Gunning for Gold Desperate for Glory in a Major Title Race As She Lines Up at the World Championships in Helsinki, Paula Radcliffe Says the Pain of Athens has Been Relegated to the Past. Simon Hart Reports Lewis
Let us hope not. Today, on the streets of Helsinki, Radcliffe resumes her rivalry with Ndereba knowing that, eight days after her hopes of ever winning a global track title disappeared into Finn air when she finished ninth in the 10,000 metres, this could also be her last chance o...
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