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Now he was able to make up for it.As for Mrs Radcliffe, who still runs the cross-country team for the club which her daughter has belonged to for more than 15 years, Bedford and County AC, she received a bouquet of flowers a day early for Mother's Day.After winning, Radcliffe described the thoughts which had run through her mind, recalling the occasion four years earlier when she had been passed virtually on the line by Ethiopia's Derartu Tulu, losing the title by just two seconds. "I was saying to myself 'keep going, keep going' I couldn't afford to let that happen again.''She added that she had prepared for the mud of Ostend by running round football fields near her old Alma Mater of Loughborough University The mud she encountered, however, was to her liking. Unlike the glutinous variety which had hampered her progress in Belfast two years ago, this mud was wet mud. And therefore, in Radcliffe's book, good mud."When I imagined winning, I imagined doing it with a sprint, just because everybody says that I can't,'' she added with a grin.While it was character more than anything which allowed her to see Wami move a stride ahead 300 metres out and then respond once again, she paid tribute afterwards to her husband, the former international 1500m runner Gary Lough, who had worked with her on the track, getting her to run in a more relaxed fashion.Since the trauma of Sydney, Radcliffe has recovered superbly, setting a European half-marathon record of 67min 7sec to win the Great North Run, and the World Half-Marathon Championship and now finds herself the holder of two global titles.The outdoor World Championships, where she will seek revenge at 10,000m for the defeat inflicted on her by Wami, now look like being a fascinating prospect. But Radcliffe is keen to profit on her current state of fitness and is contemplating doing a half-marathon - at either Lisbon or Milan in the coming week - or testing her track speed in the European Challenge event near Bilbao in a fortnight's time.There was a measure of frustration for the British women yesterday as they finished fourth in the team event, just as they had done in the longer run.For Mohammed Mourhit, Belgium's naturalised Moroccan, there was only satisfaction as he produced a definitive home win in yesterday's 12km race.As for Radcliffe, the only cloud on an otherwise brilliant horizon was the fact that in the distraction of winning on Saturday, she mislaid her "lucky ring'' which had been given to her at the age of 12 by her mother.Not quite a perfect weekend then - although as her father justly remarked: "It's a decent price to pay for a gold medal.".

The Georgia Dome in Atlanta is actually an indoor football stadium. Over this weekend, it is a basketball court, with a seating capacity of 40,000. Under a flyover, next to the Westway Sports Centre in Notting Hill, London, is a strip of asphalt with basketball rings at either end. Dreams and a shooter's deadly aim can be born in the most unlikely places, like this one Which is where Germayne Forbes started. The Georgia Dome in Atlanta is actually an indoor football stadium. Over this weekend, it is a basketball court, with a seating capacity of 40,000. Under a flyover, next to the Westway Sports Centre in Notting Hill, London, is a strip of asphalt with basketball rings at either end.

Dreams and a shooter's deadly aim can be born in the most unlikely places, like this one. Which is where Germayne Forbes started. "Summer or winter," Forbes recalled last week, "no matter what. If anybody wanted to find me, that's where I was." He was calling me in Denver from his hotel in Atlanta ESPN played on the television in the background. He was one of the participants in what America calls "the Big Dance", the NCAA collegebasketball championships.Forbes, 20, is a reserve point guard for the upstart Gonzaga University, a Jesuit college from Spokane, in the east of Washington State. The Zags, as they are known, had reached the last 16 of the NCAAs, losing, on Friday night, to the defending champs, Michigan State, 77-62.

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