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Dudley Stokes, the captain of the Jamaican bobsleigh team depicted in Cool Runnings, says he hated the film when it was first released

Linford Christie: Britain’s fastest ever sprinter on race, patriotism and persistence Tumaini Carayol Linford Christie’s Olympic training unwittingly began many years before he began to take over the world, 100 metres at a time. As a child, he spent seven formative years in Jamaica’s most populous parish, St Andrew, where his grandmother, Anita, would send him off to the shops with a cunning technique to ensure that he came back promptly. “She’d spit on the floor and say: ‘Don’t let it dry before you come back,’” laughs Christie over Zoom. “She was most pro...