Radcliffe plays down injury fears

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A tendinitis problem at the back of her left knee hit Radcliffe's bid to win a fourth title, and a third in a row, as she struggled home in fourth place behind race winner Derartu Tulu, Ludmila Petrova and Christelle Daunay.

However, the 35-year-old is confident she will return from the latest setback, and said: "It will go with rest. There just wasn't quite enough time."

She added: "Actually, I don't know, it's a bit swollen, but I don't think the crepitus has come back. It was more the fact that the whole leg shut down.

"It was something that I'm glad I had before, otherwise I wouldn't have gone to the start line. But they told me there was no way it was going to tear.

"It would just get to the point where there was no way I could bend the leg, which is kind of what happened. And now it just needs time."

Radcliffe added she would probably not have started the race had she not missed so much of her year to injury, and that she would have won had it not been for the tendinitis.

"I knew it was a risk, because if the injury came back then, obviously, I was going to run like I did. But I totally believed that if it hadn't come that I had a chance, and I think I could have won the race.

"It wasn't won in a really fast time. I think had things carried on to go how they did the first 10 miles I would have been fine. So, yeah, it was a risk. Like I said, it was probably a risk that I wouldn't have taken had I had a good year's racing.

"But coming into it I had done all the hard work, I just wanted to get out and race. It was here in New York, and I really just had it, when it cleared on Friday, I had a good feeling it was going to work."