Modern Athlete Magazine Issue 55, February 2014 | Page 6

Editor’s Letter

Doping Debate
hile planning this month’s edition, an
interesting debate developed amongst our team when
it came to the subject of our Living Legend column.
By chance, I met retired British sprinter and former
Olympic champion Linford Christie at a Maties
Athletics Club coaching workshop in Stellenbosch
in January, where he was doing pre-season training
with his athletes, and I immediately hooked up
an interview for the mag. However, one of my
colleagues argued that Linford was