‘I’ve never resorted to cheating in any form, says women’s marathon world record holder after MP indirectly identifies her as British athlete under suspicion of blood dopingFor almost a year Paula Radcliffe has known that her name was on a leaked list of athletes with “suspicious blood values”. And for almost a year the women’s marathon world record holder has ruminated over how best to respond. Her choice was simple yet desperately tricky. To proceed on the front foot, like on so many occasions during her glittering career – during which she obliterated the marathon record and won championship titles on track and cross-country – by explaining the reasons for the fluctuations in her blood data?Or, and as she eventually decided,to listen to those advisers who warned her to say nothing in public in order to hold the lid on the chronicle?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com