Tears were breaking from my eyes by watching this video. That was my time of training too, time of my hopes, my youth, and my greatest happiness. Those runners was my idols... greatest Olympic games to me. Thanks for reminder.
@MrMrinz3 жыл бұрын
God bless you sir
@markfox154510 ай бұрын
*they WERE your idols.
@sophianorris45664 жыл бұрын
Living Legend!! Where's my Linford Christie statue in London? Proud that the Linford Christie Stadium is in my borough!! Linford is the only British man to have won gold medals in the 100 metres at all four major competitions open to British athletes: the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the European Championships and the Commonwealth Games.... Sir Linford Christie...plea se lets honour our greats.
@Grandmastergav8623 күн бұрын
Need a Phil Taylor statue too - what an athlete.
@stevobaggio29998 жыл бұрын
I have such vivid memories of this moment. My mum was screaming Linford on whilst our pet dog was chasing the cat around the living room!
@williamdmason93754 жыл бұрын
Stevo Baggio With the greatest respect for your mum she was screaming at the lunchbox he had in the lycra pants...because my girlfriend then made a similar remarks....🙄😳😚🤗....(no offence intended)👍
@RIPSIRJIMMYSAVILLE3 жыл бұрын
A lot happened in your house in under 10 seconds
@markwright52233 жыл бұрын
@@williamdmason9375 We now know you were . Not every female watches sports for seeing a man's package...though perhaps your mother does . With the greatest of respect
@Two_Seat_Pete_FatA5525 күн бұрын
Yep your mum was looking at his big beef whistle
@telephonic2 күн бұрын
Haha awesome.
@stevenv100211 жыл бұрын
I remember this so well, I was 11 and I can still see my mum screaming at the TV overjoyed, great memories
@bensmithkent2211 ай бұрын
What was she watching i wonder?
@motionsickness9610 Жыл бұрын
My favourite Olympian. My favourite Olympic Games. What a time to be alive. What a feeling.
@sportzchimp91158 жыл бұрын
Just though I'd search for videos on KZfaq for Linford. This video reminded me what a fantastic sprinter he was - the best in British history!
@colinmurphy91026 жыл бұрын
The best by far
@markwright52233 жыл бұрын
Definitely the best 100m runner in British history that I know off.
@jordanjordannis22582 жыл бұрын
And wouldn't you know it, he's a Jamaican lol
@misskit1233 жыл бұрын
We had a big family party for my little sister's first birthday, everyone shouted and she burst into tears! I like to remind her annually of the time Linford Christie made her cry 😂
@Ruthypops13 жыл бұрын
My first Olympics memory. Always remember watching this with my Mum and Dad when I was 8, great moment for British sport!
@shangelaopetrus605310 ай бұрын
Wow....for me i waa never born
@Stratboy9992 жыл бұрын
I went completely mental when this race was run. I was jumping all over my front room and screaming at the top of my lungs. Great memories.
@davewedderburn48416 ай бұрын
Ben Johnson,Linford Christie and Donovan Bailey are all yard man🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲 Jamaica to the world
@telephonic2 күн бұрын
Amazing.
@kwato8 жыл бұрын
Linford was a beast
@robstone9745 Жыл бұрын
I will always remeber that moment, listening to my radio the 100m final, I was driving at that time, I stopped at some traffic lights, then 'the starters pistol' went off (2nd time) ..then Linford and my little Ford Escort got into 3rd gear and won, the engine was completely knackered after that ..but it was worth it
@Ahiga454511 жыл бұрын
Why would anyone dislike this?? Well done Linford.
@euchalob3 жыл бұрын
Maybe if they are French 😉
@johnmason16483 жыл бұрын
doping
@Matt78953 жыл бұрын
Anyone who doesn't like dopers
@merrymonarch3 жыл бұрын
Great race
@lehamsterhollandais9908 Жыл бұрын
Even if they are french , Olympic games is about humans and not nationalities , if you get to love sport , groundbreaking records and seeing courageous people living their dream is what Olympics are
@lukedaley174 жыл бұрын
Linford Christie a Great British Legend.🇬🇧
@beckdaniella12053 жыл бұрын
He's British, like it or not. He represented UK. If you have a problem with the fact that he has Jamaican roots, then you have a problem with everyone
@lukedaley173 жыл бұрын
@@beckdaniella1205 well said 👏🏾👏🏾
@Matt78953 жыл бұрын
A cheating legend
@eric-vu1jy3 жыл бұрын
HAHAHA HAHAHA
@francishunt562 Жыл бұрын
@@Matt7895 true, pretty obvious in hindsight considering the upper body development. Reminds me of Ben Johnson in that his upper torso was also unnecessarily developed.
@susanhargreaves51363 жыл бұрын
A brilliant moment for Linford
@superbrit38453 жыл бұрын
Seems like yesterday but this is 29 years ago now, life moves too fast.
@ajjohnstone70633 жыл бұрын
Watched this as a wee boy on holiday in Berwick upon tweed. Me my dad and brother screaming “CMON LINFORD...”
@paulanthony5274 Жыл бұрын
I watched this when I went on holiday to my aunties in the isle of Wight. And I was sat there with my know all uncle before the race and I nodded at him and said 'Christie' and he said "Christie won't win it" then he did and I punched the air and roared my uncle just sat there and said nothing..
@gwynjames11 ай бұрын
Linford Christie pow 💥
@rodolfoalegre29163 жыл бұрын
Esa expresión de Linford corriendo ya es todo un clásico en las historias de los 100 metros planos
@gwynjames11 ай бұрын
Christie was awesome what a runner
@indiana1464 жыл бұрын
Used to love the oĺympics when i was a kid now your only as good as your chemist
@indiana1464 жыл бұрын
@rxp56 do you remember finnish dude used to have oxgenated blood tranfusions lasse viren Might as well legalise it all your right
@steviegbcool3 жыл бұрын
dude there have been drug cheats since the 70s! all these were on drugs even Christie!
@indiana1463 жыл бұрын
@@steviegbcool i know but its worse now
@warrenharbringer64712 жыл бұрын
@@indiana146 ? They are literally getting tested. Stfu boomer.
@silvesta50272 жыл бұрын
@@indiana146 Really??? I think it’s WAY cleaner now. The 70s, 80s and 90s were full of controversy, the early-mid 80s on the women’s side especially. Some of the times ran in those days were so incredulously ridiculous. It still blows my mind that Koch’s farcical 47.60 is still technically the world record The whereabouts system used now is incredibly tough on athletes. It’s so much more secure than the testing made back in the day. Athletics (or any sport measuring physical limits for that matter) will never be totally clean, but it has never been cleaner
@messiah187mob53 жыл бұрын
This is when I remember Olympics
@isaz5973 жыл бұрын
I don't remember Linford stumbling out the blocks at the time. He definitely did after watching this back a few times
@stavrosavgousti88875 ай бұрын
Christie was great. A young Frankie Fredricks, what an athlete he was too.
@tunde8183 жыл бұрын
Frankie Fredericks must have like 10 Silvers or something. He was always second to the greats. Wish he won at least one Gold
@drebomuche2 жыл бұрын
Judas Iscariot has the greatest collection of silver, followed closely by Justin Gatlin. Frankie Fredericks is 3rd.🤭
@fede16627 күн бұрын
I'm Italian but Linford Christie was my idol.
@telephonic2 күн бұрын
Grazie.
@ramlangoddos44256 ай бұрын
The great Frankie Fredericks is seen on the podium too.
@pooledogg775Ай бұрын
We were on holiday and my Nana recorded everything on long play cassette and agree 11 I came back and watched 18 hours of coverage
@t2twanks2 ай бұрын
I remember watching this when i was 7, Linford was special
@alemcodon11 жыл бұрын
that's one evil look on his face when hes running, eye popping concentration. well done christie, ur a don.
@wilmaflintstone79173 жыл бұрын
The last British athlete to have won in that event. No British athlete has won that event since.
@TheThemattyo12 жыл бұрын
Linford was blazing Quick "
@davidcastro869617 күн бұрын
Best olimpic games EVER
@ColenelKush12 күн бұрын
For sure bro!! Epic
@Dadaadad26817 күн бұрын
My school lunchbox always looked so insignificant in comparison
@jordan454110 жыл бұрын
No drive phase lol
@garywhitehead31653 жыл бұрын
Imagine the times he and a few others could've ran with today's understanding of the event
@JamaicanMeCrazy3 жыл бұрын
I think the wr was 9.86.. Without a drive phase
@JamaicanMeCrazy3 жыл бұрын
No drive phase, form was terrible. We have come as very long way holy cow
@markbailey19703 жыл бұрын
Great memory
@tariqbenammar73734 жыл бұрын
have you got the video of heat 9 Athletics at the 1996 Summer Olympics - Men's 100 metres i cant find it
@dennismarfo35363 жыл бұрын
A time when an ealier bolt was making a way for Bolt.
@Matt78953 жыл бұрын
Bolt never failed a drugs test though
@zansportsnewstv4733 жыл бұрын
Linford🔥🔥🔥🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@TarniaF5 жыл бұрын
My brother just met him at a athletics meet
@er1cmaurer10 жыл бұрын
Those drugs can run fast.
@augustlandmesser15205 жыл бұрын
No drugs can make an old horse a racing stud.
@LaurenceLDN4 жыл бұрын
@@augustlandmesser1520 Lance Armstrong just called...he begs to differ
@dandenongroad4 жыл бұрын
August Landmesser Yes they can. Christie, from 10.40 to 10.03 at 26. Wow !
@deldia8 жыл бұрын
He's been largely ignored by Team GB in recent years despite being probably the main inspiration for many of the athletes when they were young. Yes, he probably was on drugs like all the others. BBC hired Michael Johnson...
@yojerico58568 жыл бұрын
I agree it must be extremely frustrating especially when you have represented your country but have not been given the credit or appreciation perhaps if he were running today things would have been different as there is more money in this sport now and he more than likely would be in a position like Usain Bolt tripping over himself with sponsorship deals , this sport let's not forget that was 24 years ago the sport has evolved a great deal since then.
@christansdad7 жыл бұрын
wikichris With all due respect...Christie is probably the leading coach and agent for a number of the current crop of British sprinters. Nearly all of them call him their inspiration and he is the either the coach or agent of roughly half the current UK sprinters.
@deldia7 жыл бұрын
Officially ignored.
@christansdad7 жыл бұрын
+wikichris Typing a reply is the opposite of ignoring someone...you know...how saying "no comment" is actually making a comment.
@Pistolwhipperz3 жыл бұрын
Sebastian Coe is to blame for them ignoring him. He will always be my hero.
@warreng.harding66283 жыл бұрын
Sadly the one time my home nation brought home an Olympic sprinting gold medal I was in the army so I couldn’t watch this historic race. So sad 😭
@dennismarfo35363 жыл бұрын
Were you in Iraq for the gulf war?
@JonathanHorlock3 жыл бұрын
The one time?
@steviegbcool3 жыл бұрын
it happened in 1980 too lol
@yesyoureright66511 жыл бұрын
Where does theBackground music come from?
@ewaf886 жыл бұрын
I felt a bit sorry for Leroy Burrell - a dreadful start and he looked as though he was tripping over himself all the way down.
If Shannon Sharpe were British and a sprinter...he would be Linford Christie.
@davewedderburn51304 жыл бұрын
Yard man first
@Arsenal71710 жыл бұрын
Jamaicans are just f'ing fast.
@tmat048 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree more!
@racquel97428 жыл бұрын
lool we are quite good
@augustlandmesser15205 жыл бұрын
Notice that in final race in Barcelona they all were black men. All today's afro-americans are descendants of generations who were pass cruel natural selection during few centuries of slavery. No wonder they are so superior in many sports which require explosive strength and durability. Allright, except Namibian Lion Frankie Fredericks wasn't from american continent.
@carlmorrow16003 жыл бұрын
Nah
@Myviewoftheworldful Жыл бұрын
Pity about the failed drugs tests
@rockhardrockmetalpop6 жыл бұрын
Drug FREE...I am so tired of folks criticizing Linford...he won the medal....CLEAN.
@eric-vu1jy3 жыл бұрын
DUN LIE LOL
@ramka58617 ай бұрын
He is of Caribbean background, I believe.
@peterdelmonte983227 күн бұрын
Stop that shocking music!!!
@clev3r673 жыл бұрын
He went to my secondary school
@elliotvansertima203910 ай бұрын
Where’s his knight hood
@wongway405 ай бұрын
doping allegations / politics
@prebenzacho25216 жыл бұрын
Music as overlay for this...sux
@jethrooffemaria19903 жыл бұрын
Proud to be British
@Matt78953 жыл бұрын
Proud to cheat
@scienceownsimposters21423 жыл бұрын
He was born in Jamaica..lol
@mrworld4542 жыл бұрын
These sprinters should be thankful for not running alongside Usain Bolt!
@malam51383 жыл бұрын
Music spoiled the video
@sbtbfanatic9 жыл бұрын
Linford Christie was completely juiced up! didn't he run his fastest 100m times in his 30s?
@robvickery42658 жыл бұрын
He wasn't juiced up.yea in his 30s
@tmat048 жыл бұрын
You're free to say whatever like....There is no evidence Christie used drugs during these olympics.
@andrewjenkinson89487 жыл бұрын
If by being 'juiced up' you mean he was a professional athlete, then yeah.
@davidlyon63947 жыл бұрын
sbtbfanatic = Another sore losing Yank......
@odd_job17 жыл бұрын
Kim collins just ran his fastest 100m time and he's 42
@tlig11 жыл бұрын
Don't they all eventually?
@_Island_Boy16 күн бұрын
Marhashala Ali Father
@haroldmarkham336210 жыл бұрын
great runner
@swavgav319 жыл бұрын
great runner??...great cheat more like
@petem42718 жыл бұрын
Ooh good point, show me all of the facts you must have to back this informed opinion up....
@manolitoperez93253 жыл бұрын
This is very controversial win... its all over the news here in our country... idk but christie won nevertheless.
@eric-vu1jy3 жыл бұрын
WHY? HECHEATED???
@jamesgiles99593 жыл бұрын
👍awesome
@TheCleaner763 жыл бұрын
Who broke the first time ? We all remember when he broke twice in 1996
@user-vm9hh2se7s Жыл бұрын
Looks like Linford but I think Burrell twitches first..
@auburnmann36303 жыл бұрын
Jamaican heritage
@MrLindsay201112 жыл бұрын
BORN IN JAMIACA lol clearly why hes fastest
@thatguy7-7-74 жыл бұрын
Well hes not English is he?
@bobbyjhay45944 жыл бұрын
As an athlete, the only drug I would willing take, is the drug that make horses born to run fast. Ang other drug--Noooooo! Thank you. How athletes can fall for such stupid idea--of drugs enhancements? What an illusion and deception--the greatest lie ever told. Great run by L.C.
@tomfrench71462 жыл бұрын
Hi Lids 👋
@paulwilliams202410 жыл бұрын
At the age of 32
@gerryraak10 жыл бұрын
What would you say about Flojo at the age of 38. She broke the World Record.in the 100M and 200M. At the Seoul Olympics she was tested positive and to save the USA of embarrassment like the Canadians she was asked to retire. Darrell Robinson, a former American 400 metres runner who claimed she had asked him to find out the cost of HGH. When he later told her that it was $2,000, she allegedly replied: ``If you want to make a million dollars, you've got to invest a couple of thousands.'' Robinson's comments were made in the German Stern magazine, months after the Seoul Olympics. Flo-Jo dismissed him as a ``liar'', but she did not sue for libel and Robinson stands by his account. Dr. Robert Kerr, a Californian doctor specialising in sports injuries, disclosed that he had treated Flo-Jo for an ankle injury. ``From the combination of her physical appearance and her increased performance, I believe she was on drugs,'' he said. Dr. Kerr should know: before steroids were outlawed in 1975, he had prescribed them to dozens of athletes, so is fully aware of what the drugs can do and their side effects. Pat Connolly, a former U.S. athlete turned coach, said that she was equally convinced of Flo-Jo's drug abuse and said that then, like now, American officials had not wanted to catch their top athletes, preferring them to win drug-assisted than lose. ``I don't think Flo-Jo is to blame as much as the establishment that allowed her and others to get away with it,'' Professor Werner Franke has been less equivocal. The man who uncovered the systematic sports doping programme in the former East Germany has pointed to the seizure Griffith Joyner suffered while travelling from Los Angeles to St Louis two years ago as "symptomatic of the abuse of anabolic steroids". It is known that excessive steroid use can narrow arteries and strain the heart. It is not known for certain, though, whether such symptoms were responsible for killing the woman who ran out of the world record books. Therefore, pick the boulder from your eyes my friend before you start to blow the dust from someone else.
@gerryraak10 жыл бұрын
Dr Park Jong Sei, Director of the Doping Control Centre in Seoul, revealed after the Games that 20 athletes who failed tests had not been punished - because of split votes among the International Olympic Committee's medical commission. Griffith Joyner escaped admonition on the understanding that she would never race again, thus sparing the United States the shame brought upon Canada by Johnson.
@ewaf8810 жыл бұрын
gerryraak Yes she did change a lot in appearance between 1984 (good sprinter) to 1988 (out of this World) but she sadly died at 38 after reaching her peak at 28. People not sure of her innocence/guilt should compare pictures of her in 1984 and 1988 and ask themselves - does this look right.
@gerryraak8 жыл бұрын
Conte said he believes a coverup “all the way to the top” involved track and Olympic officials at the 1988 Seoul Games. He said sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner, heptathlete/long jumper Jackie Joyner-Kersee and 400-meter hurdler Andre Phillips - three marquee gold medalists - all tested positive for PEDs in the South Korean capital, and “they were all covered up.” “And if you noticed what happened thereafter was that here at (28) years old Flo-Jo was at the height of her economic earning potential and all of a sudden she retires,” said Conte, looking back on the immediate aftermath of Griffith Joyner’s three-gold, one-silver medal haul in Seoul. “And Jackie Joyner also retires, (though) she did come back in 1992, four years later. . .”
@ewaf888 жыл бұрын
gerryraak I've always been convinced that Flo-Jo was a cheat - her face seemed to become much more manly between 1984 and 1988. Personally I think her records should be erased along with all the Eat German's - Russians and Chinese.
@Bradwellcommon3 жыл бұрын
The 1999 drugs ban - and the failed 1988 drugs test - tarnishes this. Was he doing drugs in this race too?
@Matt78953 жыл бұрын
He tested positive for nandrolone, a controlled substance. He's not really someone we can be proud of.
@eric-vu1jy3 жыл бұрын
HAHA WE CAN BE PROUD OF HIS HUGE COQ
@silvesta50272 жыл бұрын
And the fact that he was such an unremarkable athlete for the first half of his career. He didn’t even make the 1984 Olympics team, he was 24 - he should be at his peak. But come 1986 - physically he was bigger and became the surprise winner of the European championships and from that point he went from strength to strength. Worlds, Olympics, etc. Totally not suspicious. He’s had multiple drug controversies as well. 1988 he tested positive for pseudoephedrine, but was given the benefit of the doubt. He has a history of evading and abusing drug testers in his career and in 1994, he bought an over-the-counter stimulant (containing ephedrine) for his teammate Wariso. And although he had retired in 1997, in 1999 he tested positive for nandrolone. That last one was cut and dry. A 2 year ban and banned for life from the British athletics association. I’m English myself and I love athletics to death, but I find it hard to respect Christie. I try to block out most of the 80s and 90s athletics, it’s all so dubious
@francishunt562 Жыл бұрын
@@silvesta5027 the 1970's wasn't exactly drug free either.
@silvesta5027 Жыл бұрын
@@francishunt562 Yep but the 80s and 90s are the worst to me since so many of those records still stand today. Their legacy continues to tarnish athletics today
@binzy698Ай бұрын
any reason for the pointless music?
@Taribo12103 жыл бұрын
Why would anyone play stupid music over this
@64offsuiter Жыл бұрын
Drug free? Or just never caught?
@MoreChannelNoise11 ай бұрын
yeah he cheated by taking steroids but probably all the finalists were on drugs. I guess the clean guy who should have got gold only made it to the semifinals?
@usainbolt723210 жыл бұрын
whats the song called
@safarektal83808 жыл бұрын
It is called: "Song that should never be played on top of videos like this!"
@shgarli458 жыл бұрын
+safar ektal 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@futuresailor28 жыл бұрын
Hand solo / by wanksock
@eric-vu1jy3 жыл бұрын
SUCKY MUSIC LOL
@krag3r10 жыл бұрын
Performance Enhancing Drugs.
@idontsignin10 жыл бұрын
Tell me the name of a sprinter that hasnt been on the juice in the past 30 years.
@paulwilliams202410 жыл бұрын
idontsignin exactly they're all on the juice !
@builtforspeed8210 жыл бұрын
idontsignin bolt
@idontsignin10 жыл бұрын
you wish he didnt take steroids.
@paulwilliams202410 жыл бұрын
Oh yea bolt is a drug free sprinter running better times then the sprinters on PEDs . Of course he's that special ! Please to believe that is beyond stupid !
@andrewvardanega22513 жыл бұрын
Great awakening 1111 111
@crazyaboutfootballg44656 жыл бұрын
Ruined his legacy
@kevvome6 жыл бұрын
Have a look at the well-muscled runners. The ones that look like professional bodybuilders are ALWAYS the ones on drugs. No PROPER runner (drug free) should ever look like some of these guys. Running doesn't make you bulging with muscles......drugs do.
@colinmurphy91026 жыл бұрын
So every person with muscles is on drugs. 😩
@augustlandmesser15205 жыл бұрын
Drugs also can't build muscles. It's about exercise. I was training sprint too, mates called me Christie :D... And no drugs or even much food supplements.
@Emmet-q4hАй бұрын
Drugs cheat
@GreekboyyD2 ай бұрын
💉💉💉
@MrTrack4128 жыл бұрын
I imagine they used music to cover up British obnoxious braggart announcers!
@petem42718 жыл бұрын
it was David Coleman if memory serves, and he was his usual even-handed professional self. Check yo' facts Mr Breeze