Her Ultimate Test On a Marathon Journey ; Radcliffe Is the Best but It's Now Time to Deliver the Golden Finish

Evening Standard - London › August 20, 2004

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AROUND the Olympic Village the other day, there was a sight for sore British eyes. "I don't know if it was a bit of bravado after all the rumours about supposed injury problems or whatever, but Paula Radcliffe was galloping around there at a rare rate of knots as if to say 'look, what's wrong with me?," revealed Britain's endurance running technical director Alan Storey.

In the absence of other public sightings of a woman whose preparations for the defining moment of her career have been hermitic in approach, this is simply the best message we could hope for. Paula is fit, Paula is flying, Paula is ready.

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Her Ultimate Test On a Marathon Journey ; Radcliffe Is the Best but It's Now Time to Deliver the Golden Finish

On Sunday, she ought to be crowned Olympic marathon champion in the incomparable setting of the marble Panathinaiko Stadium, wondrous home of the first modern Games of It would be the culmination of a journey, often heartbreaking, often inspirational and always compelling, which began when an asthmatic kid vowed to keep trying after finishing 299th in the junior girls' national cross-country champions...

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