Jo Pavey was delighted with her victory in the BUPA Great South Run but later claimed she was just as pleased her performance did not see her finish receiving medical treatment.

Sonia O’Sullivan, a past winner of several IAAF World Championship titles, chases yet another over the half marathon distance in New Delhi on Sunday.

SONIA O’SULLIVAN recalled yesterday how the tremendous backing displayed by Irish fans in Athens Olympic stadium banished any thoughts of retirement after her Games ambitions were ruined by illness.

Illness has forced Ethiopia’s former World 10,000 metres champion Gete Wami to withdraw from the View From Great North Cross Country on January 4.