Paula Radcliffe
Paula Radcliffe
Paula Jane Radcliffe, MBEis an English long-distance runner. She is the current women's world record holder in the marathon with her time of 2 hours 15 minutes and 25 seconds. She is a three-time winner of the London Marathon, three-time New York Marathon champion, and won the 2002 Chicago Marathon...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRunner
Date of Birth17 December 1973
remember fourth
No one remembers who came fourth.
marathon anything-can-happen happens
In the marathon anything can happen
guilty pleasure feels
I don't feel guilty in having pleasure!
championship bigs persons
At big championships it's not the fastest person, it's the person who gets it right on the day.
athens
I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.
looks balls marathon
If you look back at my marathons and ask whether I would swap one of them for my one balls-up, of course I would. But you can't choose. You have to make the best of it on the day.
three olympics feels
I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.
london achieve
I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.
missing stronger lessons
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.
pregnancy thinking stronger
I think your body is just a little bit stronger after pregnancy.
feelings trying athens
I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.
keys years goal
I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.
would-be bronze olympic-medals
I would be happy with an Olympic bronze. What I don't have is an Olympic medal.
successful together wish
Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.