Mr Linford said the attack's power would be strong enough to take down government internet infrastructure.
BBC: Global internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'
You don't ask Linford Christie to run in a circle do you, so why should swimming be any different.
The IAAF is due to hear Linford Christie and Dougie Walker's cases in Monaco from 6-9 July.
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"They are targeting every part of the internet infrastructure that they feel can be brought down, " Mr Linford said.
BBC: Global internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'
Mr Linford told the BBC that the attack was being investigated by five different national cyber-police-forces around the world.
BBC: Global internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'
In 1998 he famously interrupted proceedings in a High Court libel trial to ask: ''What is Linford Christie's lunchbox?
Mr Linford told the BBC that several companies, such as Google, had made their resources available to help "absorb all of this traffic".
BBC: Global internet slows after 'biggest attack in history'
Britain's former Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie, 400m runner Mark Richardson and Scottish sprinter Dougie Walker have all tested positive for the substance.
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Mr Edwards' parents said he should never have been put in a cell with Linford, whom they say was known to be highly dangerous.
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For instance, Olympic sprinter Linford Christie was cleared of wrongdoing despite failing a drugs test when it was discovered he had drunk ginseng tea.
London-based food writer Jenny Linford, author of Food Lovers London, suggested Quo Vadis in Soho, an upscale restaurant that focuses on modern British cuisine.
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Steve Linford, director of Spamhaus, predicted that if a lot of spammers exploit this technique it could trigger the failure of the net's e-mail sending infrastructure.
Humphrey Nightingale, of Linford, Hampshire, who has previously said the past few months had been "very stressful" for the family, said they "could not have asked for more".
Former Olympic champion Linford Christie, Scottish sprinter Dougie Walker, hurdler Gary Cadogan and 400m runner Mark Richardson have all tested positive for nandrolone over the last 14 months.
"The whole problem with these laws is that they are geared to spammers being honest and respecting laws, " said Steve Linford, founder of anti-spam organisation The Spamhaus Project.
Bolt was talking to CNN Olympic contributor Linford Christie, a 100m gold medalist at the Barcelona Games in 1992, after recording 9.76 in Rome on Thursday -- the fastest time this year.
His fifth position there and second place at the World Athletics final in Paris on 14 September, when he equalled Linford Christie's European record of 9.87secs, have also been struck from the record books.
But he hopes that the 'Linford Christie' affect may be felt and a new generation of hurdlers come through as we now have an era of top-class sprinters with the likes of Dwain Chambers, Mark Lewis-Francis, Christian Malcolm and Darren Campbell.
In the meantime, there's his nutritional company to run, and young athletes to mentor, not to mention another year of Street Athletics, the project he runs with his former coach Linford Christie to give young city kids the chance to try sprinting.
Athletics saw numerous Commonwealth Games records being overcome, from Welsh star Iwan Thomas setting a new 400m mark, and Trinidad and Tobago's Ato Boldon smashing Linford Christie's 100m Games record, to the English sprint team's record-breaking performance in the 4x100 relay.
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