Track legend fine sparks outcry

A FRENCH court yesterday ordered former athletics world champion Eunice Barber to pay a €5,000 fine for insulting and biting a police officer and resisting arrest.

But the 34-year-old Sierra Leone-born athlete denounced the verdict as “worse than injustice” after the hearing near Paris, insisting she was the victim of police brutality.

“I am guilty of nothing at all,” Barber, who won heptathlon and long jump world titles for France in 1999 and 2003, said after the hearing, vowing to appeal.