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After Paula Radcliffe’s searing victory at this weekend’s Great South Run, turning on the heat in a cold, wet and windy Portsmouth, the question is: how will Paula do in next week’s biggie, the New York City Marathon?

First of all, is she fit? A fully-fit Radcliffe is, on paper, a favourite to win pretty much any race of 10 miles and upwards. Very few athletes have the capacity to throw in a 4.57 mile early on in a race and not crash and burn afterwards (winning in New York a year ago, mile 2 went by in 4.59!). And it looks very much as though the weather, not her fitness, prevented her from breaking Lornah Kiplagat’s world best over the 10-mile distance.

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New Year, new predictions…

We’re going to nervously raise our heads above the parapet and give you our predictions for 2008 – Olympic Year. Making predictions is incredibly easy; making accurate predictions is not. So for 2008 we will restrict ourselves to just 8 predictions. (more…)