Despite a clean sweep of World, European and British Championships marathon titles, as well as a long-standing world record, one medal has always eluded the grasp of running legend Paula Radcliffe - Olympic gold. Paula secured her place at London

lots of good sleep as that’s so important when you’re pushing your body to the limit.On the set, the other actors started calling me the Weatherfield Roadrunner or Paula Radcliffe. Whenever my character needed to run along the cobbles in a scene

to 2009 and it would have been thought brilliant for Mo to take a medal - we should still think like that. Mo’s going to be right up there, it’s going to really close, so I’m really looking forward to commentating on that.I hope Paula Radcliffe has a good

Radcliffe did when she won here, that would be fabulous. You can learn from other athletes but if you try to copy them it can be detrimental. You have to know your own strengths and weaknesses. You have to remember who you are and run the best race for you

at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu next month.As the medals stack up and the records tumble, we were delighted to meet the same down-to-earth Mo who remains obsessed with Arsenal FC, star struck around Paula Radcliffe and who faces a stern telling off

?A) People like Paula Radcliffe when I was younger and Kelly Holmes - they have both had massive injury. In the build up to the Games when things weren’t going well, it would have been so much easier to stop and not do it, but I had so many people supporting