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LONDON (AP) - Marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe was selected on Britain's athletics team for the Beijing Olympics on Monday.
Radcliffe was picked despite having her training interrupted by treatment for a hip injury. The 34-year-old runner failed to finish the marathon in Athens four years ago despite being one of the favorites.
Beijing will be her fourth Olympics after competing in track events in Atlanta and Sydney. She will only compete in the marathon at the Aug. 8-24 games.
Radcliffe also had her training schedule interrupted by a toe injury in September 2007 when she finished second in a half marathon _ her first race for 20 months after having her first child.
She went on to win the New York City marathon in November _ which served as her Olympic qualifying time _ but the toe injury flared again, forcing Radcliffe to miss the London Marathon.
Radcliffe ran 2 hours, 15 minutes, 25 seconds in London in 2003 to set the world record.
Also on the women's marathon team are Liz Yelling and the Japan-based Mara Yamauchi.
Dan Robinson is the only athlete on the men's marathon team, while Johanna Jackson was selected to compete in the 20-kilometer walk when the British Olympic Association released its endurance athletes list for Beijing.
The British track and field trials are July 11-13 in Birmingham, central England.
Ashia Hansen, a former two-time world record holder in the triple jump, will be competing and hoping to qualify for the Olympics at age 36 after missing out on Athens due to injury.
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