Eilish McColgan pulled out of the London Marathon citing injury and claimed organisers might not have allowed her to compete anyway.
The Scottish star was Britain’s big hope for the women’s race on Sunday having smashed her own national half marathon record by 43 seconds in Berlin earlier this month.
Inflammation in her knee, as she battled back from a hamstring tear, put paid to her ambitions of making her debut in a race famously won by mum Liz in 1996.
