Paula Radcliffe decision to keep on racing welcomed by UK athletics chief

Posted on December 11, 2012 by adminsports

Radcliffe decision to keep on racing welcomed by head of UK athletics

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13:02 GMT, 10 December 2012

UK Athletics head coach Peter Eriksson has welcomed Paula Radcliffe's determination to resume her career next year, insisting only she knows when it is time to retire.

Radcliffe was unable to compete in the marathon at this summer’s London Olympics due to injury, and lost her Lottery funding as she is no longer seen as a realistic medal contender in global championships.

But despite turning 39 next Monday, the marathon world record holder said she is 'desperate' to return to competition in 2013.

Flying the flag: Radcliffe has vowed to continue racing

'I know she had an operation on her foot and it will take some time for her to get back to running, but I see it as very positive if she is still hungry to perform,' Eriksson told the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Radio Five Live.

'If she does the right things and doesn’t push it too hard, I think she will be fine.

'The athletes know by themselves when it’s time to retire and they have to come to terms with that on their own, it’s nothing you force people into.

'She is a very talented athlete and if she is hungry to race then I think that’s great for us.'

Eriksson was appointed in October and is helping to oversee UKA’s plans for a single high performance institute in Loughborough.

Loughborough will be used as 'the engine' of British athletics according to Eriksson, but the Swede acknowledged that the likes of Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Adam Gemili will not be required to use the facility on a full-time basis.

Greek tragedy: Radcliffe pulled up during the marathon at 2004 Olympics

Gemili’s coach Michael Afilaka lost his
full-time position with UK Athletics recently and the 19-year-old world
junior champion does not want to move from his London base to work with
another coach in Loughborough.

'I talked to him and he is very
comfortable in his environment,” Eriksson said. 'We have supported his
coach this year and we will find a way to do that in the future.

'We are having coach-based support so there will be some funding going towards Adam’s coaching. He is really keen on staying where he is because he goes to the university, he is close to the training facility and has his coach there so I don’t see a reason to change that at all.

Tough cookie: Radcliffe is desperate to return to competition next year

'We need to ensure that each athlete and their coach get as much support as we can give them and we need to build a team, but in addition to that we also have a lot of athletes coming up in under-18, under-20, under-23 age groups that are performing really well.

'We need to have those and turn them into medallists and that’s why we try to hire the best coaches and have one central hub that is the engine of the sport.

'You don’t want to take an athlete out of their environment where they are comfortable and have good support, but we also want them to come and be part of the centre. They can come and go, they don’t have to live there, to move anywhere.

'Mo Farah and Jess Ennis have a great environment so why change that We just have to optimise it for them.'

Eriksson also reiterated that, unlike his predecessor Charles van Commenee, he has a good relationship with triple jumper Phillips Idowu, who failed to reach the Olympic final after a controversial and injury-hit build-up.

'He is aiming to bring back a gold medal at the World Championships (in Moscow next year) and I am looking forward to seeing him back on the team again,' Eriksson added.

'If he is fully healed from all his injuries, which he is now, there is no reason why he shouldn’t perform good again so you have to say it’s over now and we have to move forward and do better.'

Paula Radcliffe won"t retire yet

Posted on November 27, 2012 by adminsports

Just to run with my kids would be enough, admits Radcliffe after triple operation

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22:30 GMT, 26 November 2012

On August 5, 2012 Paula Radcliffe sat in a London hotel room and watched Tiki Gelana of Ethiopia win gold in the women’s marathon in a time of two hours, 23.07 minutes, an Olympic record.

Tears start to form in Radcliffe’s wide, pale blue eyes at the memory. That was meant to be her race, in her country; her final opportunity to add Olympic glory to world championship success and world records of a glittering long-distance running career; her time to bury the memories of Athens and Beijing. And then the tears start to fall.

‘There’s a lot more suffering in the world and people put up with a lot more than me just missing a race,’ she says. ‘But, yes, it was hard. I think I could have handled that for one Olympics and maybe for two. But for three It just felt really unfair.

Tears: Paula Radcliffe finished the 2008 Olympic marathon in 23rd place

‘One of the most frustrating things was that I felt I was in good enough shape to run 2.19 or 2.20. That made me feel even sadder because it wasn’t as if they were miles ahead and I would only have been running for top five or top six. I could have been in there fighting for it.

‘You just think, why couldn’t the Games have just been six weeks earlier Sometimes it all felt like a bad dream and I would wake up to discover I could actually do it.’

While Great Britain basked in an incredible year of sport, the woman who has been a figurehead for so long was an outsider, looking in. Some 10 days before the Games, the cartilage between the navicular and talus on the top of Radcliffe’s left foot cracked; the repercussions of an undiagnosed stress fracture sustained in 1994 were taking their toll.

Recovering: Radcliffe's injured foot

The bones in the foot were rubbing against each other, causing pain that was so bad Radcliffe was told she may never run again.

‘It was hard because it was the end of the Olympics for me,’ she says, her voice faltering again. ‘It was hard because it was the Olympics in London. Then to see what a brilliant atmosphere it was …it would have been amazing to be able to run in that.’

Instead, on August 22 in California, Radcliffe had three operations on her left foot: a bone graft to correct the stress fracture, a procedure to separate two bones that had fused together and a micro-fracture to stimulate the cracked cartilage.

She was ‘immobilised’ for 10 weeks and then forced to use a knee scooter to get down to the beach to go aqua-jogging to help her rehabilitation.

When we met last weekend in Barcelona, where the IAAF were holding the World Athlete of the Year awards, Radcliffe still could not run. She is hopeful she will be back jogging before Christmas, but there are no guarantees.

The 2013 London Marathon — 10 years after she smashed the world record in the race — is almost certain to come too soon. But she will battle on, as always.

Nobody could have criticised Radcliffe for calling time on her career at the age of 38.

She admits this was her immediate instinct, but two things changed her mind and forced her to have the operations. The thought of not being able to run — recreationally and with her children Isla, five, and Raphael, two — was unbearable.

All smiles: Radcliffe has had to go through extensive rehabilitation

‘I’ve always run,’ she says, simply. But Radcliffe is even more determined to ‘finish by finishing a race’. It does not necessarily have to be a major championship, although the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow or the 2014 London Marathon would be preferable, but she knows she has to sign off properly and on her terms.

She recalls: ‘I said to Gary, my husband, “That’s it. I’m not going to do this any more. It’s too many times I’ve been kicked down”. Then I got this feeling that I have to at least finish a race.

‘Even if I never manage to get back to elite level, I still want to be able to run with my kids. I’ve realised my potential and won world championships. It’s just the Olympics that’s going to be sad for me.’

Jessica Ennis wins Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year award

Posted on November 9, 2012 by adminsports

Golden girl Ennis caps stellar 2012 by winning Sportswoman of the Year award

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09:38 GMT, 9 November 2012

Jessica Ennis has added the Sunday Times Sportswoman of the Year award to her haul of accolades from a memorable 2012.

The 26-year-old won heptathlon gold at the London Olympics this summer, setting three personal bests and a British record of 6,995 points along the way.

Fellow Olympic gold medallists Katherine Grainger and Jade Jones also picked up awards at the ceremony, as did Paralympic champions Sarah Storey and Ellie Simmonds.

Iconic moment: Ennis crosses the line to win her final event - the 800m - before showing off her gold medal

Iconic moment: Ennis crosses the line to win her final event – the 800m – before showing off her gold medal

Iconic moment: Ennis crosses the line to win he final event - the 800m - before showing of her gold medal in London

Iconic moment: Ennis crosses the line to win her final event - the 800m - before showing off her gold medal

Golden girl: Ennis collects her medal

'It’s an incredible honour considering the amazing performances we’ve had this year from British women,' Ennis told BBC Sport.

'It’s so nice, once you’ve done all the hard work and you’ve achieved, to be awarded with these amazing awards that people have voted for.

'It’s a real honour and Sports Personality [BBC Sports Personality of the Year] is definitely going to be a big one too. It’s going to be a surprise on the night I think but a great evening.'

Ennis, from Sheffield, joins a list of previous winners that includes fellow athletes Paula Radcliffe, Denis Lewis and Dame Kelly Holmes as well as last year's winner, 2011 world taekwondo champion Sarah Stevenson.

Grainger – who finally won Olympic rowing gold alongside Anna Watkins in the double sculls having collected silver on three consecutive occasions previously – was named Olympian of the Year.

Jones, who won Britain's first Olympic taekwondo gold medal at the age of just 19, was voted young Olympian of the Year, while cyclist Storey won Paralympian of the Year and swimmer Simmonds young Paralympian of the Year.

British rower Grainger, a three-time Olympic silver medallist before she triumphed with Anna Watkins in the women’s double sculls in London, was voted Olympian of the Year.

Good things come to those who wait: Grainger (left) celebrates with Watkins

Storey was named Paralympian of the Year after she equalled the British record for modern Paralympic victories when she took her fourth gold of the Games and 11th overall.

Jones, 19, who claimed Britain’s first Olympic taekwondo gold medal, was voted Young Olympian of the Year, while Ellie Simmonds, who won two golds, a silver and a bronze at the Paralympic Games this summer, was named Young Paralympian of the Year.

Goldrush: Simmonds (above) and Storey (below) were both outstanding during the Paralympics

Of the record 65 medals won by Team GB at London 2012, 25 were won by women, and at the Paralympics female competitors won 19 of 34 British golds.

Elsewhere, the Young Sportswoman of the Year award was shared by tennis duo Heather Watson and Laura Robson, while Olympic team pursuit gold medallists Dani King, Laura Trott and Joanna Rowsell took the Team of the Year award.

Phillips Idowu Lottery funding renewed by UKA

Posted on October 16, 2012 by adminsports

Rio funds for Idowu as triple-jumper ends UKA feud despite London 2012 flop

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21:00 GMT, 15 October 2012

Phillips Idowu's spat with UK Athletics appears to be over after he was lavished with warm words and the tangible gift of 75,000.

The triple-jumper kept his top-bracket Lottery funding for 2013 on the day marathon world record-holder Paula Radcliffe was among several senior athletes removed from the programme in UKA’s ruthless push for success at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Idowu's inclusion on 'podium' funding — up to 26,000 in living expenses, plus coaching, training, competition, medical and scientific support worth another 50,000 — comes despite his rift with former head coach Charles van Commenee.

Bust-up: Phillips Idowu feuded with former UKA chief Charles van Commenee

The pair fell out over the way Idowu withdrew from the European Team Championships last year, with the stand-off doing neither any credit.

Idowu, 33, then refused to come clean about his injury status as the London Olympics approached and failed to qualify for the final, but now Van Commenee has departed.

After meeting Idowu, new performance director Neil Black said: ‘We both feel really positive about the future. We are going to work together.’

Cash blow: Radcliffe has been removed from the list of athletes befitting from Lottery funding

Cash blow: Radcliffe has been removed from the list of athletes benefitting from Lottery funding

There can be no argument with Radcliffe’s treatment. She is 39 in December and has suffered a litany of injuries, the latest of which — to her left foot — kept her out of the Olympics. Her chances of making Rio are slim, but she said: ‘Retirement is definitely not in any plans. I’m not doing all this cross-training and getting this foot healthy and strong for nothing!’

With Black saying the emphasis is on Rio, the inclusion of well-travelled triple-jumper Yamile Aldama appears odd. The former Cuban and Sudanese competitor will be 44 by then.

Leap of faith: Garabarz is one of those whose funding will be boosted

Other big names to be axed are: veteran sprinters Mark Lewis-Francis and Marlon Devonish, European 400m hurdles champion Rhys Williams, Radcliffe’s fellow marathon runner Mara Yamauchi, former European 800m silver medallist Michael Rimmer, Commonwealth 1500m bronze medallist Steph Twell and former world 400m silver medallist Nicola Sanders.

Sprint prodigy Adam Gemili, 19, is added to the podium list. Robbie Grabarz, Olympic bronze-medal-winning high jumper, returns to full funding.

UK Athletics prepare to reveal funding cuts ahead of Rio Olympics

Posted on October 14, 2012 by adminsports

Radcliffe among those set to miss out as UKA prepare to reveal funding cuts

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13:49 GMT, 14 October 2012

Funding at risk: Paula Radcliffe

UK Athletics will announce on Monday a reduced group of athletes who will receive lottery funding for next season, with the emphasis on those with major championship medal potential over the next four years.

The governing body have narrowed the focus for a place on their World Class Performance Programme from athletes with top-eight potential to those who are top-three contenders.

That will mean fewer podium-level funded athletes, the highest level of lottery support, which runs from around 13,000 to 26,000 and is in addition to non-financial help like access to coaches, facilities, medical staff and training camps.

Athletes who failed to achieve the targets set out for them at either the 2011 World Championships or this summer's Olympics or those not considered medal contenders at the Rio Games in 2016 could be cut.

That could mean experienced names like world marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe and former world 800 metres bronze medallist Jenny Meadows missing out.

Radcliffe, who is 39, missed London 2012 through injury and did not compete either at the World Championships in Daegu the previous summer.

Meadows, 31, was not selected for the Olympics and missed the entire 2012 season due to injury, while she failed to make the final in Daegu.

The likes of Commonwealth 1500 metres bronze medallist Stephanie Twell, former European 800m silver medallist Michael Rimmer, both of whom have been plagued by terrible problems, and 400m runner Martyn Rooney could also be under threat.

So too could be members of the men's and women's relay teams, including the likes of sprinters Marlon Devonish, Christian Malcolm and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey.

London 2012 Olympics: Lisa Dobriskey accuses 1500m rivals of cheating

Posted on August 11, 2012 by adminsports

Dobriskey hints at cheating by rivals in 1500m final after she finishes outside the medals

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23:37 GMT, 10 August 2012

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Lisa Dobriskey appears to have accused the women who beat her in the 1500 metres at the Olympic Games of cheating.

‘I’ll probably get into trouble for saying this but I don’t believe I’m competing on a level playing field,’ said Dobriskey, the 2009 world silver medallist, on Radio 5 Live.

‘Of course I am uncomfortable about it. I am not pointing the finger at particular individuals, but that is how I feel. I think the blood passport is catching people but I think these Games came too soon. People will be caught eventually, I think. Fingers crossed anyway.’

Hitting out: Lisa Dobriskey made the accusations after the 1500m final

Her moan is similar to the complaints Kelly Holmes and Paula Radcliffe have made in past years. Six Russian middle-distance runners were banned from these Games only two weeks before they began.

Dobriskey may be right but it is certain she will be asked to explain herself and apologise even though the suspicion has been around for years. The world record for 1500m dates back to 1993 when the Chinese Qu Yunxia set it at 3min 50.46sec. No woman has run under 3:55 this century.

The occasion she chose to point the finger, though was bizarre. It was the slowest Olympic 1500m final in history, more than five seconds slower than the next slowest.
For the Turk Cakir Alptekin to win in 4:10.23 was to earn the cheapest gold of the Games. She ran five seconds faster in the semi-final.

The only drug that it seemed likely had been taken by any of these runners was a sedative. They put the 80,000 crowd to sleep with their pedestrian best.

In the hunt: Dobriskey managed to stick with the leading pack for the majority of the race

It is hard to blame Dobriskey for not beating Alptekin, even though her career best is almost 11 seconds faster. Her pre-Olympic preparations have been one disaster after another — she got off to a false start last October when she needed surgery on her hip. In early March a vertical line stress fracture in her femur was discovered.

‘At that point we were panicking a bit,’ she admitted. Then in late May she was finding every training session hard to complete, and a hospital examination discovered a pulmonary embolism, blood clots on her lung. She could not run for more than five minutes at a time.

‘At the start of this year, before everything happened, I genuinely felt I had a chance of winning a medal in London and I just want to be the best I possibly can be,’ she said. Coming 10th in 4:13.02 is a long way from that.

Getting there first: Asli Cakir Alptekin of Turkey crosses the line to win gold ahead of silver medalist Gamze Bulut

Head coach Charles van Commenee cannot now reach the target of eight medals that he said would keep him in the job even if Mo Farah and the women’s 4x400m relay team win medals today.

The eighth day of athletics produced nothing to add to Great Britain’s five already won. Sophie Hitchon could not repeat her British record in the hammer that won her qualification for GB’s first ever final in the event. She finished last of the finalists in 12th with 69.33m, two metres down on qualifying.

Pole vaulter Steve Lewis cleared his opening height at 5.50m at the second attempt, skipped 5.65 and again managed 5.75 with his second effort.

He was one of six who managed it, and placed equal fourth at that time. But after failing at 5.85, which would have been a British record, he finished fifth equal in a competition won with an Olympic record of 5.97, by France’s Renaud Lavillenie.

In the medals: Third placed Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain celebrates with winner Asli Cakir Alptekin and second Gamze Bulut both of Turkey

The 5,000m offered little hope to the Britons who had qualified for the final, Jo Pavey and Julia Bleasdale. Their consolation in a slow race was to finish first of the non-Africans, Pavey seventh and Bleasdale eighth, the best of the Europeans.

Pavey led for a while but not after defending Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba injected pace with four laps left. Ultimately though, her hope of retaining her title disappeared in a last lap burn-up won by her team-mate Meseret Defar ahdead of Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot. Dibaba was third.

Defar had won gold in Athens and bronze in Beijing. ‘I’m not sure I can do a fourth, so this means a lot to me,’ she said.

London 2012 Olympics: Freya Murray replaces Paula Radcliffe in marathon

Posted on July 31, 2012 by adminsports

Paula texted to say I had replaced her in marathon, reveals shocked Murray

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21:30 GMT, 30 July 2012

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Freya Murray found out she might be replacing a legend in the Olympic marathon when she was doing her weekly supermarket shop.

The news came in a text from the legend herself — Paula Radcliffe.

It was followed by a phone call from Radcliffe to explain the scale of the problem she was facing with her foot and how unlikely it was that she would be able to compete.

Surprise chance: Freya Murray will run in the marathon in place of the injured Paula Radcliffe

Murray said: ‘I didn’t want to get carried away in case it didn’t happen. I didn’t think, “Oh, I’m definitely going”, just that there was a possibility.’

The next day she went to work as a structural engineer in Newcastle as if nothing had happened but on Sunday— after it was confirmed when the IAAF accepted Britain’s application for a late change of runner — Murray had to ask for time off.

‘My boss has been very understanding,’ she said.

So has Radcliffe.

Agony: Radcliffe is consoled by husband Gary Lough in the Bird's Nest four years ago

‘It must have been a very difficult telephone call for her to make,’ said Murray. ‘I feel for her. I’m totally gutted for her and can only imagine how she must be feeling. It must be horrible for her.’

Murray, 28, is from Edinburgh and ran her first marathon in London in April.

Her time, more than 15 minutes slower than Radcliffe’s world record, fulfilled Britain’s selection criteria but she missed out on a place for the Olympic marathon to Claire Hallissey who finished ahead of her.

Valiant: Radcliffe finished third in last year's London Marathon

‘I would love to go quicker than I did in April and I think I am capable.

‘It’s been a very exciting couple of days, just letting it all sink in. I’ve never had so many text and Facebook messages.

‘I’m aiming to enjoy the experience and run very well on Sunday.’

London 2012 Olympics: Watch BBC video highlights from day two

Posted on July 30, 2012 by adminsports

Watch BBC video highlights from day two at the Olympics

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00:59 GMT, 30 July 2012

Great Britain secured their first two medals of the Olympics on day two as Lizzie Armitstead landed silver in the Road Race and Rebecca Adlington won bronze in the 400m freestyle.

However, there will be no Games gold for Paula Radcliffe who has been forced out of the marathon due to injury, but there was better news for Team GB football as UAE were put to the sword at Wembley.

You can watch highlights on the video player below…

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Scott Styris smash can"t hide need for a T20 overhaul – World of Cricket

Posted on July 26, 2012 by adminsports

Smash-hit Styris can't hide need for overhaul of county T20 game

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01:08 GMT, 26 July 2012

Smash hit: Scott Styris hit 100 from just 37 balls for Sussex against Gloucestershire on Tuesday night

That was how it was meant to be. A packed house, sunshine and spectacular, fun cricket. Watching Scott Styris of Sussex demolish Gloucestershire with a century off just 37 balls in the Twenty20 quarter-final at Hove was a reminder of just why the short-form ‘monster’ that England created took the world game by storm.

It is not normally like that now. Not in England, anyway. OK, the weather has been dismal in the main, but this year’s Friends Life t20 has looked a tournament in desperate need of an overhaul. The goose that laid the golden egg has looked well and truly cooked and ready to be served up for a last supper.

During one of this year’s many rain breaks the other week, Sky showed a re-run of the 2008 Twenty20 final at the Rose Bowl when I reckon the ‘new’ format was very much at its peak. There was a cracking final between Kent and Middlesex. Bumble at his absolute best on the mic, Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame sitting with the players in the dug-out and a young lad dancing in the stands who was to become something of a symbol of all that was good about Twenty20.

My sports editor was so taken by it that Sportsmail devoted its main feature pages to finals day the following Monday, the only time in my memory that county cricket has so captured popular imagination. It has been downhill since then.

There are many reasons for that. Too many games, of course. Counties playing their matches too closely together — this year Surrey, for example, played four games in a week and then had a week off — and a bonkers schedule and start times.

Glory days: Eoin Morgan celebrates Middlesex's T20 triumph in 2008

Prices are too high, too, at 20-25
for adults and 10-15 for children. With home games clustered together
how can families possibly afford to go to every match

Tuesday’s first two quarter-finals, crucially played at two of the smaller county venues in Taunton and Hove that still often put up the ‘full house’ signs, was a reminder of how good it still can be when it gets to knockout cricket. So were Wednesday’s clashes at Headingley and Trent Bridge.

But, of course, the ECB have done their best to weaken the competition still further by moving finals day from the middle of summer, where it was so well suited, to the football season at the end of August.

London 2012 Games: Paula Radcliffe demands action after Dwain Chambers reprieve

Posted on May 1, 2012 by adminsports

Drugs cheats must not win! Radcliffe demands action after Chambers reprieve

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08:04 GMT, 1 May 2012

Paula Radcliffe has vowed to lead a
worldwide campaign to pressurise the World Anti-Doping Agency into
applying tougher bans on drug cheats.

Radcliffe has hit out at WADA after
the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the British
Olympic Association's lifetime ban for drugs cheats was unenforceable
under their code.

Paula Radcliffe: leading the fight

That has paved the way for the likes of sprinter Dwain Chambers and cyclist David Millar to compete at this summer's Olympics in London.

It is a scenario women's marathon world record holder Radcliffe is not comfortable with and, after claiming WADA is failing to listen to athletes, called on them to make their concerns heard.

'This isn't about Dwain Chambers; it's a far wider issue. It's about a bigger deterrent being in place,' she told the Daily Express.

'If WADA is not listening to the world's athletes then we have to make them. Athletes have a voice. We can put pressure on WADA to make this tougher.

Dwain Chambers: back in action

'I've always had a loud voice against the cheats and if we all do that we can make a difference. I will make a stand.

'I would like to think we could do it across the world. If all the athletes logged on to a campaign and signed their name to it, I'm sure we could do it.'

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