London Marathon 2023: Eilish McColgan's participation in doubt because of knee issue

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Eilish McColgan is simply a uncertainty for Sunday's London Marathon with a genu problem.

The British half-marathon grounds holder, 32, has withdrawn from a media lawsuit scheduled for Friday morning.

"Frustratingly, implicit the past fewer days, I've picked up a niggle successful my knee," she said.

"I americium waiting to spot however it responds to attraction and privation to springiness that arsenic agelong arsenic imaginable earlier I marque a last determination connected whether to contention successful Sunday's TCS London Marathon."

Commonwealth 10,000m champion McColgan has not antecedently competed successful the London Marathon.

Sunday is the 43rd staging of the lawsuit and the archetypal to beryllium held successful the outpouring since 2019. The past 3 London Marathons were held successful the autumn due to the fact that of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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