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	MW Final Year Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Linford Christie is coaching a small team of Athletes, who he believes have a great future in the sport, this group recently coined 'Team Linford' by the media, has already brought success and Linford's inspirational coaching methods have been hailed by UK Athletics and the media.
		Linford Christies role as Managing Director of Neff Respect, his management company, is as time consuming as it is challenging, the company the he set up in 1992 with Colin Jackson has now become one of the leading Sports Management Companies in the Country representing over 20 of the countries leading Athletes.
		Linford still has not 'hung up his spikes' for good as in 1999 while training with his group, his group set him a challenge to race the 60m under 6.60secs and surprised everyone by not only winning but also setting the fastest time of the year in Stuttgart.
	www.blackbritishrolemodels.0catch.com /personpage07.htm (712 words)

	Sports Stars
		He was Linford Christy who had not taken seriously to sprinting until he was 25 years of age, who admitted happily that up to then he had preferred playing deminoes to training and who had been dismissed as a potential crowd-puller by promoter Andy Norman as an athlete "not capable of filling a telphone box".
		Linford Christie took off on one of the most remarkable careers in the history of athletics.
		Throughout his long career Linford Christie set a vast collection of records at British, British Commonwealth and European level, both indoor and outdoor and perhaps his most striking performance was his 9.87 seconds in winning the 100 Meters at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart.
	www.gtvsport.com /sports_stars.htm (423 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Depth \| Newsmakers \| Linford Christie: Polishing his pride
		For Christie, the man who had a nation punching the air in 1992 when he won the Olympic 100 metres gold in Barcelona and in '93, when he won the world championship title, is labelled "boorish" by Coe, twice Olympic 1500m champion and 11 times world record-breaker.
		Christie was not to be so "lucky" when, in semi-retirement, he received a two-year ban from the International Amateur Athletic Federation, IAAF, after he tested positive to 100 times the acceptable level of the performance-enhancing steroid, nandrolone.
		Linford Christie, OBE, MBE, was born in St Andrews, Jamaica, the middle child of seven in a working-class, Pentecostal household.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/newsmakers/1173577.stm (859 words)

	Observer \| 'Since when did Seb Coe learn to Jive talk?'
		Christie takes quite easily to martyrdom and these phone calls were a confirmation of what he must have understood already: that if a London bid were successful he would be officially blanked out of his home city's Olympic memory.
		It is convenient for Christie, who is now 45, to blame Coe and racial politics for his Olympic snub, while ignoring the more obvious reality of his failed drugs test, what he calls 'the nandrolone thing', which ruined the end of his career and, by implication, some of what went before.
		Christie has argued his innocence for so long now that he recites it as if it was a mantra, or a curse.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5274602-103977,00.html (4341 words)

	100 Great Black Britons - Linford Christie
		Linford Christie was the first of a new breed of athlete that defied age as a barrier to perform, winning his first major title at the age of 26.
		Linford was the first man to retain the World Cup 100m title and in 1997 won a record 7th European Cup title.
		Linford is sponsored by Puma and Volvo where he works on their Environmental / Children projects.
	www.100greatblackbritons.com /bios/linford_christie.html (252 words)

	Ananova - Lay off Linford, pleads Boldon
		Christie is serving a two-year ban after testing positive for the banned substance nandrolone and is not permitted to coach his athletes in Sydney, a role he has handed to his own mentor Ron Roddan.
		Christie, who also managers Dwain Chambers and Christian Malcolm, is also finding that fellow agents are making it difficult for him to get his athletes into the right races to prepare them for the Games.
		Christie may be surprised that support is coming from the 1997 world 200m champion with whom he had a heated disagreement during the Olympic 100m final four years.
	www.ananova.com /sport/story/sm_60083.html (530 words)

	Linford Christie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		On 1st August 1992 Linford Christie's moment of truth arrived, could he at the age of 32 finally capture the most valued title in athletics "Olympic Champion", in an event that the oldest man ever to win it before had been aged 28.
		Linford had, of course, gained the Olympic silver medal four years earlier (behind Lewis) after the disqualification of Ben Johnson but nothing can compare to a "Gold".
		Linford failed to make the 200m final finishing 5th in his semi, with 20.38sec.
	www.sporting-heroes.net /athletics-heroes/displayhero.asp?HeroID=1480 (317 words)

	Sport \| No late run for man of the people Linford Christie
		W hen I read this week that Linford Christie had declined an invitation to stand for the presidency of UK Athletics, I thought back two years to Katharine Merry celebrating her Olympic silver medal in Sydney and replying to a question about the influence of her coach.
		There are people in and around athletics who dislike Christie, and they are seldom reluctant to raise the issue of his positive test for nandrolone three years ago, or the business of the ginseng in Seoul in 1988.
		And so Christie's enemies will be delighted that he is not standing for an election that would have made him the figurehead of British athletics.
	sport.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4534981-108598,00.html (726 words)

	Twister
		In the final 200-meter training sprint of the afternoon, Linford Christie cruises into the turn, last among four runners and very much the largest of them, making it appear that they are children and he is some wronged authority figure chasing them down.
		Christie has lifted weights for more than two hours, crunched through 400 sit-ups, spent another 90 minutes on the track and reiterated that he is not preparing for the Olympics.
		Christie is sprawled on a couch in a condominium complex in Gainesville.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /events/1996/olympics/storyolympic/twister.html (1870 words)

	Healthweb
		Linford and his family were not aware of what they were dealing with when his mother first experienced the warning signs.
		Linford's father and four sisters helped to care for Mabel once she was taken home.
		She remained ill for quite a while and the Christies grew to accept that she might never be able to make a full recovery.
	healthweb.blink.org.uk /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=77 (848 words)

	RTÉ.ie Sport - Athletics: Christie offered training facilities in wave of support
		Linford Christie has been offered alternative training facilities in Australia after being banned from continuing his build-up to the Sydney Olympics in New South Wales.
		Christie, who was cleared by UK Athletics last year, has been suspended by world body, the IAAF, until he faces their arbitration panel in April.
		Christie's fate was learned yesterday after an earlier declaration by Australian athletics officials that he had been cleared to continue using facilities at the Sydney Academy of Sport to train his bunch of British sprinters.
	www.rte.ie /sport/2000/0216/athletics.html (436 words)

	AM Archive - Champion Sprinter Suspended
		PETER CAVE: Linford Christie, one of the greatest sprinters of the modern era and one of the most vocal opponents of drug-taking in sport has failed a doping test and been suspended from athletics.
		Christie finally bowed out of top-level competition two years ago to concentrate on his business interests and to coach promising young athletes.
		The sport's governing body in Britain, UK Athletics, says Linford Christie will have to attend a disciplinary hearing, but it's stressed at this stage that he's not been proved guilty, he just has a case to answer.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s41680.htm (585 words)

	Champion who tried to outrun drug test slurs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		LINFORD CHRISTIE has tried long and hard to live down his first positive drug test at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, when the stimulant pseudoephedrine was discovered in his urine samples.
		Christie blamed it on having drunk ginseng tea and was furious when Prince Alexandre de Merode, the Belgian head of the Olympic medical commission, said that he "had been given the benefit of the doubt".
		The article, cited Christie's muscular physique, late development as a top sprinter and alleged aggressive behaviour as evidence that he was taking performance-enhancing drugs.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/08/05/nlin105.html (512 words)

	The Stroke Association - Linford Christie Talks To Stroke News
		Olympic athlete Linford Christie opens his heart this week to share his personal experience of stroke in the new edition of Stroke News, The Stroke Association’s quarterly magazine, due out Wednesday 22nd September.
		Britain’s most famous gold medallist talks movingly about the effects of stroke and the impact it had on him and his family when his mother was struck by the condition in 1998.
		Linford is currently backing The Stroke Association’s campaign to raise awareness of stroke in African-Caribbeans.
	www.stroke.org.uk /media_centre/press_releases/linford_christie.html (621 words)

	Ananova - Sydney green light for Christie
		Linford Christie has been allowed to continue coaching some of Britain's Olympic track stars despite his recent doping ban.
		Christie was locked out of the Olympic training facilities in Sydey earlier this year after the original International Amateur Athletic Federation drugs allegation.
		Christie tested positive to banned substance nandrolone after a meeting in Germany last year, and despite being cleared by UK Athletics, a two-year ban was imposed by an IAAF arbitration panel last week.
	www.ananova.com /sport/story/sm_47684.html (231 words)

	other
		Linford Christie was today given a date for the arbirtatration hearing which he will face as a result of the doping allegations made against him.
		Linford Christie was today told that he has been banned from using NSW coaching facilities, due to his suspension over the recent nandrolone case brought against him by the IAAF.
		Christie made his attack upon the IAAF whose arbitration panel also intend hearing the cases of two other British athletes - Doug Walker and Gary Cadogan - who were also cleared by UKA after testing positive for nandrolone.
	www.geocities.com /tenderisthetouch/other.html (989 words)

	Linford Christie sued over crack cocaine deal (Pub-friendly) [The Rockall Times]
		The reason behind the infestation is Mr Christie's unconventional approach to hiding the small rocks of high-strength cocaine.
		Mr Tonkins is up for a fight however, with the millionaire Mr Christie not only denying he sold the drug to Mr Tonkins but also claiming that he was not even in London at the time of the deal.
		Linford Christie may in fact be an alias given to a street-wise fl dealer called Markus who lives in the Brixton area.
	www.therockalltimes.co.uk /2002/09/30/christie-crack.pub.html (649 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Breakfast with Frost \| Linford Christie and Gerald Kaufman MP
		Well Linford Christie is with me right now in the studio, and we'll see if he can persuade one of the sceptics from the politic world, Gerald Kaufman, who chairs the Commons culture, media and sport select committee.
		LINFORD CHRISTIE: Well I mean first of all I think it's time that we need it, you say 50 years ago since we had the last Olympic Games - the feel good factor.
		LINFORD CHRISTIE: Oh it would be good for the sportsmen, for the country.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/breakfast_with_frost/2695913.stm (1070 words)

	CNN/SI - Athletics - Christie branded `Road Rage Runner' after incident - Friday August 06, 1999 11:54 AM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Posted: Friday August 06, 1999 11:54 AM Linford Christie calls the police after being involved in a car accident when a photographer jumped in front of his car.
		Accompanying the report were pictures of the photographer grimacing in pain with his foot apparently under the wheel of Christie's Mercedes and of the photographer being treated by ambulance officers.
		Christie's public relations company 'Nuff Respect said the incident occurred outside the 39-year-old sprinter's home when he was caught up in an "invasion of press onto his driveway."
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /athletics/news/1999/08/06/christie_roadrage_ap (488 words)

	Telegraph \| Motoring \| Portrait of a driver: Linford Christie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Big fun: Linford Christie with his Audi A8 Before I met him I would have guessed that his lightning-fast reactions and competitive spirit would have ensured a tyre-smoking getaway in the green-light grand prix, yet nothing could be further from the truth.
		Christie grew up in Shepherd's Bush in west London, and as a boy his training consisted of trying to beat the bus to school.
		The one on the big Audi is a bit of a give-away as to who the driver is - I won't repeat it here for fear of people challenging him to endless traffic-light sprint competitions - but he says he used to have a registration finishing with the letters LEC on his old Merc 300.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2005/02/19/mrport19.xml&sSheet=/motoring/2005/02/19/ixmot.html (821 words)

	Study clears Linford Christie of false start in the Olympic final
		LINFORD CHRISTIE should not have been disqualified from the 100 metres final in the last Olympics, according to a study that has shown human reaction times are much faster than previously thought.
		Dr Rothwell said: "The subjects themselves said they did not perceive that they had reacted very fast but they did perceive that something else other than their normal volition had made them move." Since the cerebral cortex was not involved, they thought that they had not really willed the movement to happen.
		"Christie was disqualified because he had a reaction time of 0.08 seconds when the lower limit was 0.1.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/05/17/nlin17.html (676 words)

	Linford Christie is suspended after test for banned steroid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		LINFORD CHRISTIE has been suspended from athletics after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid, the International Amateur Athletics Federation confirmed yesterday.
		Although UK Athletics, as Christie's governing body, is responsible for investigating him, it emphasised its "full support to all British athletes in the collective quest for the truth regarding doping issues".
		Its statement included a response from Christie, in which he said: "I have consistently opposed the use of banned substances and it is ridiculous to imagine that I would take them after my retirement.
	telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1999/08/05/nlin05.html (502 words)

	Running Network Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Linford Christie: a minimum of two years suspension starting from 1 December 1998.
		Linford Christie recorded an adverse finding on 13 February 1999 but was cleared by UK Athletics on 10 September 1999.
		In the case of Walker the level was 12.59 ng/ml and in the case of Christie the level was 200 ng/ml.
	www.runningnetworkarchives.com /results.phtml?username=atf&id=28539 (419 words)

	Linford Christie hails new look pools and fitness centre - London Borough of Richmond upon Thames (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Olympic sprint legend Linford Christie will be the special guest when the newly-refurbished Teddington Pools and Fitness Centre is officially launched on Saturday, May 21.
		Linford will join the new Mayor of Richmond upon Thames, Cllr Robin Jowit, to perform the honours when the centre, in Vicarage Road, throws open its doors after a £700,000 facelift.
		Linford, who won Olympic 100 metres gold in 1992, said: “It is great that a local authority is putting money into sport and, as someone who has a business in the area, I welcome Richmond Council’s commitment to its residents’ healthy lifestyle.”
	www.richmond.gov.uk /fr/press_office/press_releases/press_releases_2005_05/linford_christie_hails_new_look_pools_and_fitness_centre.htm (471 words)

	history
		: UKathletics announce that Linford Christie has tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone, at an indoor meeting in Dortmund on February 9th.
		The case is referred to a UKathletics arbitration panel.
		: Linford is cleared of knowingly ingesting nandrolone by the UK:A panel.
	www.geocities.com /tenderisthetouch/history.html (88 words)

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