ZOLA BUDD PIETERSE has signed up to run the Great Stirling Marathon next year, but event organisers will hope to avoid the kind of controversy that clouded her last race in Scotland.
Wendy Sly, Mary Decker Slaney and Zola Budd Pieterse at The Fall premiere
In 1985 she ran a mile at the Dairy Crest Games in Edinburgh, but the race was disrupted when a hooligan ran on to the track and sat on the inside lane, forcing Budd to run around him before the barefoot runner went on to win in 4:23.14.