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Linford Christie, pictured at the Lee Valley Athletics Park, north London. Photograph: Tristan Bejawn/The Guardian
From running to the shops in Jamaica to wrapping himself in the Union Jack, the Olympian has had phenomenal highs and bruising lows. He looks back on an extraordinary life in athletics
Thu 13 May 2021 06.00 EDT
Linford Christieâs Olympic training unwittingly began many years before he began to take over the world, 100 metres at a time. As a child, he spent seven formative years in Jamaicaâs most populous parish, St Andrew, where his grandmother, Anita, would send him off to the shops with a cunning technique to ensure that he
Linford Christie: Britain’s fastest ever sprinter on race, patriotism and persistence Tumaini Carayol
Linford Christie’s Olympic training unwittingly began many years before he began to take over the world, 100 metres at a time. As a child, he spent seven formative years in Jamaica’s most populous parish, St Andrew, where his grandmother, Anita, would send him off to the shops with a cunning technique to ensure that he came back promptly. “She’d spit on the floor and say: ‘Don’t let it dry before you come back,’” laughs Christie over Zoom. “She was most probably my first coach.” Christie has no recollection of ever getting in trouble upon his return, an indication that even in those days he ran like the wind.
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