Radcliffe Hopes to Be Fit for a Crack at Elusive Title ; British Athletics Performance Director Dave Collins Insists Paula Radcliffe Will Only Be Considered for the Olympic Marathon If Fully Fit - but He Is Optimistic the 34-Year-Old Will Be Able to Line Up in Beijing On August 17.

Express & Echo (Exeter, UK) › August 05, 2008

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British Athletics performance director Dave Collins insists Paula Radcliffe will only be considered for the Olympic marathon if fully fit - but he is optimistic the 34-year-old will be able to line up in Beijing on August 17.

Radcliffe faces a race against time to make her fourth successive Games after being diagnosed with a stress fracture in her left thigh in May.

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Radcliffe Hopes to Be Fit for a Crack at Elusive Title ; British Athletics Performance Director Dave Collins Insists Paula Radcliffe Will Only Be Considered for the Olympic Marathon If Fully Fit - but He Is Optimistic the 34-Year-Old Will Be Able to Line Up in Beijing On August 17.

She has since defied medical predictions that it would be impossible for her to compete by starting to ...

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