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THE OATTAli
Runner sets record, asks for test
(AP) — Paula Radcliffe had the pedi
gree, the past performances and a track tai
lor-made to showcase what she does better
than any woman in the world: run mile
after mile after mile after mile with the
precision of a metronome.
So nobody should have been surprised
when the 28-year-old British runner was the
first woman across the line Sunday at the
Chicago Marathon. Or that she covered the
distance in a world-best 2 hours, 17 minutes
and 18 seconds — lopping nearly a minute
and a half off the old mark.
Even less surprising, though, was what
Radcliffe did afterward. She insisted on
taking a drug test.
“I just wanted to make sure that was
done,” said Radcliffe, the two-time world
cross-country and half-marathon champion,
“so there could be no questions and no
issues about this one.”
That reveals as much about her sport as
Radcliffe’s place in it.
Nobody who competes in track and field
is above suspicion of using performance
enhancing drugs. Same with cycling and all
the other endurance sports — and for that
matter, baseball, football, soccer, hockey,
golf and even chess.
What makes Radcliffe stand out, beyond
her success these past two seasons, is that
she welcomes the scrutiny, even insists on it.
Remember how Sammy Sosa chafed at
the offer of a surprise test to back his claims
about being steroid-free? Well, Radcliffe
refuses to let any opportunity slip away
without doing just that. As she’s climbed
steadily toward the top. Radcliffe has raised
the stakes in her crusade against the per
formance-enhancing drug EPO.
She wears a red ribbon on her singlet to
show support for compulsory blood test
ing, a more effective method than urine
tests, and she's authorized release of her
own blood tests from just about every race
she’s run in.
At the world championships in
Edmonton last year, Radcliffe sat in the
stands during the 5,000-meter heats holding
up a hand-lettered sign. It read "EPO
Cheats Out” and it was intended for
Russian Olga Yegorova, who had tested
positive for EPO but was allowed to com
pete on a technicality.
David Moorcroft, an outstanding dis
tance runner who was head ot the British
federation at the time, warned Radcliffe
she’d “spend the rest of her life looking over
her shoulder,” wondering whether some
body had spiked a post-race drink, a snack,
even her toothpaste.
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(the test) was done so there
could he no question and no
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issues about this one.
— Paula Radcliffe
Winner of the Chicago Marathon
Radcliffe explained in an interview
soon after why that wasn’t too steep a
price to pay.
“Too many people think we’re all at it,”
she said. “It’s like the Tour de France.
Because no cyclists stood out against the
cheats, they all got tarred with the same
brush, those who wouldn't touch a drug
condemned along with those who are full
of the stuff.
“And I don’t want that,” she concluded,
“to happen in my sport.”
Like Lance Armstrong, she knew what
to expect after setting herself up as a beacon
for drug-free performance in a sport
shrouded by it. She’s been asked to prove
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