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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=629 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3><DIV class=mxb><DIV class=sh>Faces of the week </DIV></DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=416><DIV>
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Our regular look at some of the faces which have made the news this week. Above are Linford Christie (main picture), with Lady Thatcher, Bryan Ferry, Damilola Taylor and Princess Beatrice.
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The Olympic gold medal winner, 46-year-old Linford Christie OBE, has been announced as a mentor for senior athletes by UK Athletics. The appointment has surprised some people because Christie was banned from the sport in 1999 after testing positive for the banned substance, nandrolone.
Linford Christie's career has known unparalleled highs and lows.
He was the first man in history to hold the Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles in the 100m and by the end of his track career Christie had won 23 medals overall, more than any other British male athlete before or since.
But he was the subject of two scandals related to drugs and won a libel case against a journalist who accused him of using banned substances. And in the run-up to Britain's Olympic bid he had a public feud with the bid's leader, Lord Coe.
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<DIV class=cap>Back on track? Linford Christie and Dave Collins of UK Athletics</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Christie was prevented from participating in the bid and from the celebrations following the allocation of the 2012 Games to London.
He felt aggrieved at his exclusion, and felt that he had been victimised. But his former co-athlete, Derek Redmond has described Christie as "a well-balanced athlete; he has a chip on both shoulders".
Linford Christie was born in Jamaica and moved to England when he was seven, to join his parents who had moved five years earlier. He grew up in a modest home in west London, not far from the stadium which has now been renamed after him.
After leaving school at 16, Linford Christie held a variety of jobs while training, though not in a committed way, preferring to maintain a good social life. It was in this period that he fathered three children.
He got serious about his running at the age of 19 but took time to get to the top, failing to make the British team for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
But in 1986 he unexpectedly won the 100m at the European Championship and took Silver at the Commonwealth Games.
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Two things can come to their mind - admiration and envy 
<BR clear=all></DIV></DIV><DIV class=mva><DIV>Linford Christie on people's reactions to his physique</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The 1988 Seoul Olympics was tainted by drugs-related controversy. B
</DIV><BR clear=all>Our regular look at some of the faces which have made the news this week. Above are Linford Christie (main picture), with Lady Thatcher, Bryan Ferry, Damilola Taylor and Princess Beatrice.
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The Olympic gold medal winner, 46-year-old Linford Christie OBE, has been announced as a mentor for senior athletes by UK Athletics. The appointment has surprised some people because Christie was banned from the sport in 1999 after testing positive for the banned substance, nandrolone.
Linford Christie's career has known unparalleled highs and lows.
He was the first man in history to hold the Olympic, World, European and Commonwealth titles in the 100m and by the end of his track career Christie had won 23 medals overall, more than any other British male athlete before or since.
But he was the subject of two scandals related to drugs and won a libel case against a journalist who accused him of using banned substances. And in the run-up to Britain's Olympic bid he had a public feud with the bid's leader, Lord Coe.
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<DIV class=cap>Back on track? Linford Christie and Dave Collins of UK Athletics</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Christie was prevented from participating in the bid and from the celebrations following the allocation of the 2012 Games to London. He felt aggrieved at his exclusion, and felt that he had been victimised. But his former co-athlete, Derek Redmond has described Christie as "a well-balanced athlete; he has a chip on both shoulders".
Linford Christie was born in Jamaica and moved to England when he was seven, to join his parents who had moved five years earlier. He grew up in a modest home in west London, not far from the stadium which has now been renamed after him.
After leaving school at 16, Linford Christie held a variety of jobs while training, though not in a committed way, preferring to maintain a good social life. It was in this period that he fathered three children.
He got serious about his running at the age of 19 but took time to get to the top, failing to make the British team for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
But in 1986 he unexpectedly won the 100m at the European Championship and took Silver at the Commonwealth Games.
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</TD><TD class=sibtbg><DIV><DIV class=mva> Two things can come to their mind - admiration and envy <BR clear=all></DIV></DIV><DIV class=mva><DIV>Linford Christie on people's reactions to his physique</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The 1988 Seoul Olympics was tainted by drugs-related controversy. B