Olympic gold medallist Mizuki Noguchi and Paula Radcliffe the
world
champion and record holder, are unlikely to go head-to-head in the
marathon before the next Games in 2008.That is the opinion of David
Bedford and Mark Milde the race
directors of two of the world's biggest events, the Flora London
Marathon and Germany's top meeting in Berlin. Even
the buying power of the multi-million dollar budgets both these
and the other three of the "Big Five" competitions in Boston, Chicago
and New York enjoy, seem unlikely to orchestrate the
clash.