Christie is set to join former Olympic javelin silver-medallist Steve Backley, two-time Olympic decathlon champion Daley Thompson and Katharine Merry, the Games 400m bronze medallist in 2000, as mentors for the British team leading up to London 2012.

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For a generation brought up on British 8-bit computer games, there was and is only one true Olympian, and that is Daley Thompson.

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