- Purdue was expected to get UK Athletics pick for Japan
- ‘It’s an honour to run for GB but I won’t forget this whole year’
Charlotte Purdue, one of Britain’s top marathon runners, says her desire to represent her country has been “tainted” after she was controversially left out of the Tokyo Olympics.
The 30-year-old, who is in bullishly impressive form before Sunday’s London Marathon, was expected to get one of the two discretionary UK Athletics picks for Japan after being given a medical exemption to miss the Olympic trials in March through injury.
