Paula Radcliffe, the brilliant British distance runner whose impressive career has been plagued with injuries, could miss the Beijing Games with a stress fracture in her femur.Radcliffe says that although she's not ready to give up on Beijing just yet, specialists have told her it would be impossible for her to compete in three months.
She adds, "It's been a nightmare last three weeks but I'm trying to stay calm about it. I'm thinking positive. I am looking at it as 90-100 percent that I will be in Beijing. Other people will put it a lot lower."
Radcliffe has been the best female distance runner in the world for years, having been a major international competitor since 1993 and having won major events at every distance from the 5,000 meters to the marathon. But she's had horrible luck around the Olympics and has yet to win an Olympic medal.
If Radcliffe can't run in Beijing, she'll start setting her sights on one last chance on her home turf in London in 2012, when she'll be 38 years old.
