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I'm confident of what I have to achieve in the buildup to London 2012.
Paula Radcliffe
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Paula Radcliffe
Age: 50
Born: 1973
Born: December 17
Long-Distance Runner
Olympic Athlete
Northwich
Cheshire
Paula Jane Radcliffe
MBE
Paula Jane Radcliffe
Confident
London
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Actually I don't choose to expose myself in public. I choose to compete the other side just comes with the package.
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The Olympics is not a race I want to watch on television and think 'I wonder what I could have done if I was there?
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You can't become a winner overnight, or even in a couple of years-it takes time... You will lose races and you will have to accept that, learn from it and believe that you'll win the next one, knowing that you'll probably lose that as well. All the time you have to keep believing that one day you will win.
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