To Be Honest With You

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I don't know what happened in the final, I just ran the race of my
life. You never know how fast you are going, you just run and obviously you know you have been fast if the opposition has been beaten. But, as for the exact time, you have no idea.
The clock stopped at 10.01 seconds - which was world class. There weren't many people who had run faster than that - and it hadn't been a tight finish. I couldn't believe it.
Linford Christie, captain ofthe British athletics team, is one of the best-known sports personalities in the world. A powerful and impressive sight in the arena, the 100-metre Olympic champion has captured the imagination of the public with his total determination and graceful style. Yet he remains something of an enigma; a hero who says exactly what he thinks without reveahng a great deal about his own motivation. In To Be Honest With You he removes much of the mystery for the first time.
Linford's first love was football and it was only when he was picked for... Tovább

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I don't know what happened in the final, I just ran the race of my
life. You never know how fast you are going, you just run and obviously you know you have been fast if the opposition has been beaten. But, as for the exact time, you have no idea.
The clock stopped at 10.01 seconds - which was world class. There weren't many people who had run faster than that - and it hadn't been a tight finish. I couldn't believe it.
Linford Christie, captain ofthe British athletics team, is one of the best-known sports personalities in the world. A powerful and impressive sight in the arena, the 100-metre Olympic champion has captured the imagination of the public with his total determination and graceful style. Yet he remains something of an enigma; a hero who says exactly what he thinks without reveahng a great deal about his own motivation. In To Be Honest With You he removes much of the mystery for the first time.
Linford's first love was football and it was only when he was picked for the school athletics team that running entered his life. Such was his natural ability that success came without too much effort, although the realization eventually dawned that he would need to train hard to be the very best. Faced with a stark choice at the age of twenty-five - either commit or get out - he became serious. The stunning results put Linford Christie among the pantheon of truly great runners.
Success of this magnitude does not come easily. Along the way, Linford has been through as many clashes with the media as with his rivals. In To Be Honest With You he deUvers frank opinions on the state of athletics today, the use of drugs, his treatment by the press and the quality ofthe opposition. He talks of his life both on and off the track, his fitness and technique, family and friends, finance and the future. But, most of all, he reveals just what goes through the mind of one ofthe greatest sprinters the world has ever seen as he steps into the blocks and prepares to cover 100 metres faster than anyone else. It may take less than ten seconds but victory in the 100 metres is the result of years of intense dedication and hardship, satisfaction and elation. AH of this, and more, is covered by To Be Honest With You, the most compelling book ever written by a top international athlete. Vissza