Paula Radcliffe aims to lay down Beijing marker
Rick Broadbent, Athletics Correspondent in New York
Saturday November 03 2007, 12.00am, The Times
Paula Radcliffe's attempts to pour oil on troubled waters have long been a source of public voyeurism and it will be the same tomorrow when the woman with the self-confessed ability to fall apart in an emotional miasma, only to come back stronger, takes a bite at the Big Apple.
This is where it gets serious for Radcliffe. She was second in the Great North Run a month ago, but the New York Marathon is a more telling proposition. This being Radcliffe, she revealed that she has had oil injected into her left foot since her comeback; the flipside to that is, she feels happier and stronger than she did premotherhood.
"I was frustrated and angry with myself after the Great North Run because I