The IAAF has registered its "considerable dismay" to the British parliamentary committee that implicated Paula Radcliffe in doping allegations, "prompting her to go public with a furious denial," according to Owen Gibson of the London GUARDIAN. The intervention will "increase the tension around the ongoing doping allegations that have engulfed the sport." It came as Radcliffe "stepped up her campaign to prove the supposedly suspicious blood values referred to by the Sunday Times were not evidence of doping," by revealing the "off scores" in question and "explaining the context behind them." The IAAF has written to the culture, media and sport select committee in the wake of Tuesday's hearing. In a letter from Thomas Capdevielle, the organization's anti-doping senior manager, it challenged the committee's chair, Jesse Norman, "over how he could have alluded to Radcliffe's name if he did not know the contents of the leaked database." Before the hearing, to which the IAAF was not invited, it had written to the committee to reiterate it was of "critical importance that no names or individual blood data or results are discussed in the context of a public hearing or otherwise in the course of proceedings before the committee" (GUARDIAN, 9/10). The BBC reported Radcliffe feels like she has been "almost abused" by calls for her to release her blood data. Asked if "freeing data would clear her," she said, "I don't need to. I'm clean. I'm not being forced and almost abused into giving a knee-jerk reaction to something that goes against other people, who I trust." She said that she would not release her data because she wanted to "protect a lot of other innocent athletes." Radcliffe: "I do not want to see another innocent athlete put through what I've been through in the last few months" (BBC, 9/10).
