• Exclusive: Marathon world record holder says harmless athletes will suffer
• Radcliffe says only athletes who have doped should have marks taken absent
Paula Radcliffe has hit out at a proposal to expunge all track and field world records from the books because she believes harmless athletes like herself will unfairly suffer.
Radcliffe was responding to UK Athletics’ report A Manifesto for Clean Athletics,which made 14 proposals to clean up the sport, including life bans for drugs cheats as well as resetting world records because many were set when doping was more prevalent. The 42-year-veteran, or whose world marathon record of 2hr 15min 25sec has stood since 2003,said: “Without doubt you are going to punish harmless athletes, so why do it again when they have already had to compete against cheats during their career? I feel harmless athletes have suffered enough at the hands of drugs cheats.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com