Paula Radcliffe, chasing   a third London marathon title , says she has became a stronger person after her terrible experience at the 2004 Athens Gaines.    Radcliffe, who failed to complete the Olympic marathon and the 10,000m last August, said: "Athens made me a stronger person and it made me care less about criticism  "    "In the past I wanted to please everyone, but now I am going to listen even more to the people around me."    She didn't care about criticism made at the weekend by Liz McColgan, who felt Radcliffe should have rested and let her body recover after her failure inprefix = st1 /Athens.    "Liz is someone I look up to but she hasn't spoken to me since last year and if she really eared for me, I'm sure she would have contacted   me."    Instead Radcliffe won the New York City marathon just 11 weeks afterAthens.    "In New York I wasn't in my best state but I did know I was good enough to win the     Radcliffe insisted her only goal in Sunday's race would be winning a third title and not chasing world records.    However, RadcIiffe has not ruled out  m the future chasing her "final" world record time and questioned sayings that marathon runners have the ability in their career to produce only four or five world-class times.    "I don't think that -- although _ ," said. RadcLiffe. "That changes from person to person."    Radcliffe is sure she can better her winning London 2003 performance at some point in the future. Following a successful three-month training period in theUnited States, the 31-year-old will chase a third title on Sunday after her first victory in 2O02 and again 12 months later. Radcliffe clocked a time of 2:18:56 in her first 42.2-kdnmetre race three years ago.    Afterwards she set a "mixed course" mark of 2:17:18 five months later In Chicago before lowering that to a time of 2:15:25 m the 2003Londonevent. Radcliffe's failure in Athensmade her   _
develop respect for Liz love people around her more rest for five months face criticism calmly