SYDNEY: The Commonwealth Games were robbed of two of their biggest drawcards yesterday when Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe and English marathon world champion Paula Radcliffe both pulled out.
Thorpe told a news conference here that he had succumbed to a mystery illness that had plagued him for almost a month before Radcliffe’s husband released a statement in Britain saying she was withdrawing because of a bruised foot.
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