Linford Christie

"Black Knights"? Your kidding me right? keep calling them that and of course people are going to start treating you differently :S


Edit to clarify: i mean by using that phrase it sets black althletes apart from white ones, which is bound to lead to ill feeling/racism.
 
What is the oh dear for? What is the rolleyes for?

He's referring to athletes as knights, and he's then talking about black athletes as black knights. I don't see a problem unless you take his comments out of context purely to get a reaction.
 
james.miller said:
he perhaps would have been knighted if he wasnt banned, guilty or not
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Pretty much. Then he has the cheek to say this about Seb Coe:

"What did he achieve for athletics?"

Gilly said:
What is the oh dear for? What is the rolleyes for?

He's referring to athletes as knights, and he's then talking about black athletes as black knights. I don't see a problem unless you take his comments out of context purely to get a reaction.
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Kelly Holmes got an honour, the relay team from 2004 got honours.

What else has Christie done for the Sport other than win a gold medal through luck, and spout bile like this?
 
a) You can only beat what is put in front of you
b) Yes there was
c) He did far more than win 'a gold medal'
 
a) You can only beat what is put in front of you
Ok.
b) Yes there was
Like who?
c) he did far more than win 'a gold medal'
What has he done since he retired?
 
Frankie Fredericks and Carl Lewis weren't bad.

As for doing more than winning a single gold medal, three commonwealth golds, three European Champs golds, a World Champs gold and an Olympic gold is a good record.

Is Lewis a poor boxer just because there was hardly anyone to beat when he was in his prime? No.
 
Gilly said:
What is the oh dear for? What is the rolleyes for?

He's referring to athletes as knights, and he's then talking about black athletes as black knights. I don't see a problem unless you take his comments out of context purely to get a reaction.
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He's not referring to athletes as knights, he's referring to Sir's as knights. The point is silly anyway, why restrict the so called institutional racism to athletics? If he would look at other fields he would see there are plenty of black 'knights.' It's obvious in Britain that there are going to be less black people knighted than white people, simply because of demographics.
 
Visionary said:
He's not referring to athletes as knights, he's referring to Sir's as knights.
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I didnt get that fromt he article at all, if your right then my previous comments were unwarrented then.

But if you are right then he's basically just crying cos he didnt get knighted, which is bad as well.
 
Makunouchi said:
I didnt get that fromt he article at all, if your right then my previous comments were unwarrented then.

But if you are right then he's basically just crying cos he didnt get knighted, which is bad as well.
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I think it can only be read one way really.

"How many black knights from British athletics do you know,"

If by 'black knights' he meant 'black athletes' then the question would be: "How many black athletes from British athletics do you know,"

I know many. :p

(I don't really know many, because athletics is boring, but I assume there are many :p)
 
The article seems slightly contradictory or at least confused, firstly there is the claim of institutional racism in Britain and in athletics in particular (probably there is) then the claim that the ban for doping cost him a knighthood. I hope and think the latter is likely to have rather more to do with it than the former.

It certainly seems a pretty large oversight (to be kind) to exclude Mr Christie from the procession but were there any other athletes carrying the torch that had tested positive and banned? If not then his case becomes somewhat shakier.
 
Visionary said:
I think it can only be read one way really.

"How many black knights from British athletics do you know,"

If by 'black knights' he meant 'black athletes' then the question would be: "How many black athletes from British athletics do you know,"

I know many. :p

(I don't really know many, because athletics is boring, but I assume there are many :p)
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I read it as black knights as in black athletes, as he speaks of athletes going to war:

"For me, I look at track and field and what I did in the sport, it's like going to war," he said.

"I went out there and I battled against other countries and put British sprinting on the map and so therefore I don't think it's something I should want to do, I think it's something I should be asked to do."
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In context he might be saying 'black British athletes that achieved anything like I did in war for my country' which makes sense.
 
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