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"The Lunchbox thing followed me around for years" Details of support for some of the issues raised in this video are available at the BBC Action Line: https://www.bbc.co.uk/actionline/ Subscribe and 🔔 to the BBC 👉 https://bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSub Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/iPlayer-Home Linford Christie looks back on his extraordinary career, from the highs of winning Olympic gold to the lows of failing a drugs test after coming out of retirement for one last race. In the late 80s and 90s, Linford Christie was Britain’s most feted athlete. The only British man to win successive golds at the Olympic Games, World Championships, European Championships and Commonwealth Games, he was as famous as any celebrity in the UK. His sprinting victories united the country in celebration and prompted endless media coverage of his life. He won 24 medals in a highly decorated decade of dominance and then seemed to disappear off our screens. That might be explained by what happened in 1999, when he briefly came out of retirement to settle a bet with the athletes he was coaching and tested positive for nandrolone. Now, for the first time, Linford is daring himself to confront the past and consider his legacy. It's a story told through exclusive interviews with Linford himself, as well as with his family, childhood friends, fellow athletes Sally Gunnell and Jonathan Edwards, the sprinters he trained - Darren Campbell and Katherine Merry - the journalists who followed his s

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