Rio Olympics 2016: 4 great athletes who could never lay their their hands on an Olympic gold

#2 Paula Radcliffe

Radcliffe could never live up to her reputation in the quadrennial event

Unlike Lee Chong Wei, English long-distance runner Paula Radcliffe will have no chance to win the elusive Gold in Rio 2016 as the one of the greatest track athletes hung up her running boots last year. Radcliffe’s will go down as one of the most heartbreaking stories in sports as Radcliffe managed to secure almost every record in the sport to her name but not the Olympic gold.

Radcliffe finished her career as a six-time world champion and won both the London Marathon and the New York Marathon thrice apart from also winning the Chicago Marathon. She also held the record in women’s marathon which she set during the 2003 London Marathon. The now 42-year-old is also the current world record holder for the women's road 10k which she finished in a time of 30 minutes and 21 seconds. But her four appearances in Olympics didn’t yield a single medal, forget the gold.