Radcliffe withdrawal not due to injury
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World record holder Paula Radcliffe&#39;s tearful withdrawal from the women&#39;s Olympic marathon yesterday was not due to injury, the British team says.
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After a seven-day saga featuring missed drug tests, a suspicious motorcycle crash and defiant denials, Greece&#39;s top two sprinters pulled out of the Athens Olympics on Wednesday rather than be kicked out.
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Athens - Greek athletes have been ordered not to dedicate Olympic medals to disgraced sprinters Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, who withdrew from the team after a dope-test scandal.
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Kostas Kenteris, the Greek sprinter who quit the Olympics after failing a drugs test, has denied faking a motorcycle accident to avoid giving a doping sample.
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Marion Jones and Paula Radcliffe came up empty-handed when their Olympics ended before their races did. Tragic endings in their final events at the Athens Olympics left the two biggest female stars with no
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Paula Radcliffe admits the only remedy for her Olympic pain will be to discover there is something wrong with her. Radcliffe has been unable to come up with a plausible explanation for her gut-wrenching exit
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Defending Australian Open champion Justine Henin-Hardenne withdrew from the first Grand Slam of the year because of a knee injury.
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Roger Federer will get a free ride into the quarter-finals of Wimbledon after his opponent Tommy Haas withdrew on Sunday with an abdominal muscle strain.
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Britain's gold medal hope in the women's marathon Paula Radcliffe insists she is focused ahead of the race.
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PAULA RADCLIFFE is almost certain to challenge for the 10,000 metres next summer rather than contest the marathon at the bi-annual World Championships in Finland.
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BRITISH marathon flop Paula Radcliffe will run the Olympic 10,000m final tonight, British athletics team officials said. &quot;Paula has decided to run the 10,000 metres,&quot; a British athletics team spokeswoman said.
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After dramatically crushing out of the Olympic marathon on Sunday Paula Radcliffe would only say she was "devastated".  Do we put too much pressure on our sport stars?
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Injuries suffered in Lancashire incident 'not life-threatening'
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NEW YORK -- This was all about Athens, about redemption for one and validation for the other. Britain's Paula Radcliffe, the fastest female marathoner in history, failed to finish either of her Olympic races last summer. South Africa's Hendrik Ramaala was a five-ringed dropout, too, reinforcing his reputation as a man who could go only half the distance.
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If Paula Radcliffe is looking for a low-profile re-entry into competition, she&#39;s picked the wrong race. The 30-year-old world record holder hasn&#39;t raced since her crack-up
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A medical examiner has found that Greek sprinter Katerina Thanou, who was in hospital with fellow athlete Costas Kenteris, had no injuries, a judicial source said on Tuesday.
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British team management were forced to issue a denial here Tuesday that top medal hope Paula Radcliffe was carrying an injury.