Diane Modahl: Commonwealth 800m gold in 1990
MARK SHEARMAN
A SIX-TIME AAA national champion and former English 800m record-holder with 1:58.65, Diane Modahl’s life after athletics has included working for the BBC in the lead-up to the 2002 Commonwealth Games in her hometown of Manchester, appearing in I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here and establishing the Diane Modahl Sports Foundation (DMSF), which helps more than 700 young people a week across Manchester.
Unfortunately, however, the three-time Commonwealth Games medallist, whose best moment came when she topped the podium in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1990, is often not best remembered for her athletic achievements, but for being falsely accused of a doping offence on the eve of the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
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