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 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 th...
Linford Christie: Britain's fastest ever sprinter on race, patriotism and persistence
The Guardian - 13 May 2021 12:00
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 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 th...
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