Paula Radcliffe feels like she has been “almost abused” by calls for her to release her blood data.
The former British athlete, 41, says she has been implicated by a parliamentary hearing on blood doping, following a Sunday Times investigation. Radcliffe has now released the three ‘abnormal scores’ after earlier telling the BBC she would not be “forced” into a “knee-jerk reaction”. She claims the results are “not even suspicious”.
The marathon world record holder scored 114.86, 109.86 and 109.3 in three blood test results, which were followed up and cleared by the IAAF at the time they were given.
Any score above 103 recorded by a female athlete can trigger further action, but Radcliffe, who set her world best time in 2003, said those three tests analysed by experts employed by the Sunday Times lacked context.
