Equality vs quality, innovation vs tradition, and everyone vs pacing lights: Cross Country and distance running with Paula Radcliffe

Send us a textEarlier this year, UKA announced that they were going to consult clubs, athletes, and competition organisers about cross country race distances. A host of GB runners, including three-time World Champion over the cross - Paula Radcliffe - penned a response, arguing against equal distances for men and women. As could only have been expected, Twitter immediately became the sort of rocky, perilous landscape only previously seen in Aarhus in 2019.Why the furore? Should gender parity,...