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Wednesday, 25 June 2008 |
Linford Christie believes he's a victim of racism
 Linford Christie thinks he is the victim of prejudice and that there is "institutionalised racism" in the UK still.
Christie maintains that the past doping controversy he was named in has led to him failing to get the recognition he feels he deserves.
Former Olympic champion Christie, who had won 100 metres gold at the 1992 Olympics, says he should have carried the Olympic torch on its way through London in April this year but he wasn't allowed.
Linford Christie was banned for life by the British Olympic Association in 1999 after he failed a routine doping test.
That happened after an indoor meet in Germany at a period when as an athlete he was in semi-retirement from sport, but he has always denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs.
Christie had been cleared of an earlier offence when he tested positive for pseudoephedrine at the 1988 Olympics, when the International Olympic Committee voted to accept his explanation that the substance had come from a legal tonic drink.
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