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by Boss on Fri Apr 11, 2008 1:49 pm
He did, but it was a false ban.
Christie was actually about 39 / 40, when he ran that indoor race.
He had been saying, he could probably still get a good time in a race like that, even after not running competitively for 3 years. He was then dared by two other Athletes Katherine Merry and Darren Campbell to enter the race.
To my knowledge the race was a 60m indoor race, with no qualification rights for any major indoor tournaments.
That's when the problem occured. He won the race, but got what many believe a dud test result.
People who knew him, raced against him, and went to Olympics with him, like Sally Gunnell, Steve Cram and many others, knew full well the situation was highly flawed.
Gunnell even said, there would be no point in him supposedly cheating to win, in a race of that lesser magnitude, when he had never gotten a positive result in all his major competitive years. She said it would have made more sense, if such a result had occured after he won Gold in Barcelona 1992, or another time in his major racing days, but that he wasn't that kind of athlete, and pretty much everyone new it.
As a direct result of the almost certainly flawed findings, Christie was prohibited to be trackside at Sydney, with athletes he helped, including Merry and Campbell. He had to sit in the stands.
Yes he technically was found positive on a test, and yes unfortunately banned, but the British athletics community, (and possibly many other athletes world-wide), are ademant, that in no way was Christie someone, who took things that were on an IOC not approved list.
Neither do I. The logic and sense of the situation is totally flawed, and to this day I don't think he has ever had any apologies, admissions of culpability or negligence from anyone, involved in the whole situation.
I believe he should have done. He could have fought the decision with laywers, and some do. Diane Modahl, Dougie Walker to name but two. Yet Christies attitude was, despite a possible tarnish on his character, the expense of fighting it with lawyers wasn't practical, unless he was someone who was 10 years younger, and still highly competitive.
The magnitutde of the race, the occasion, and what it would have signified for him and British athletics, meant contesting the test result, especially with lawyers, would be an expensive and pointless waste of time. These things can rumble on almost as long as any bans in some cases.
Christie was actually about 39 / 40, when he ran that indoor race.
He had been saying, he could probably still get a good time in a race like that, even after not running competitively for 3 years. He was then dared by two other Athletes Katherine Merry and Darren Campbell to enter the race.
To my knowledge the race was a 60m indoor race, with no qualification rights for any major indoor tournaments.
That's when the problem occured. He won the race, but got what many believe a dud test result.
People who knew him, raced against him, and went to Olympics with him, like Sally Gunnell, Steve Cram and many others, knew full well the situation was highly flawed.
Gunnell even said, there would be no point in him supposedly cheating to win, in a race of that lesser magnitude, when he had never gotten a positive result in all his major competitive years. She said it would have made more sense, if such a result had occured after he won Gold in Barcelona 1992, or another time in his major racing days, but that he wasn't that kind of athlete, and pretty much everyone new it.
As a direct result of the almost certainly flawed findings, Christie was prohibited to be trackside at Sydney, with athletes he helped, including Merry and Campbell. He had to sit in the stands.
Yes he technically was found positive on a test, and yes unfortunately banned, but the British athletics community, (and possibly many other athletes world-wide), are ademant, that in no way was Christie someone, who took things that were on an IOC not approved list.
Neither do I. The logic and sense of the situation is totally flawed, and to this day I don't think he has ever had any apologies, admissions of culpability or negligence from anyone, involved in the whole situation.
I believe he should have done. He could have fought the decision with laywers, and some do. Diane Modahl, Dougie Walker to name but two. Yet Christies attitude was, despite a possible tarnish on his character, the expense of fighting it with lawyers wasn't practical, unless he was someone who was 10 years younger, and still highly competitive.
The magnitutde of the race, the occasion, and what it would have signified for him and British athletics, meant contesting the test result, especially with lawyers, would be an expensive and pointless waste of time. These things can rumble on almost as long as any bans in some cases.
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