BBC Sport reports on banned sprinter Dwain Chambers Tampa tryout success. Chambers impressed enough NFL Europe scouts that the Hamburg team offered him a contract.
Track and field organizations banned Chambers for the use of BALCO designer drug THG.
Dwain Chambers' athletics career could be over after the announcement that he has signed a contract with German gridiron side Hamburg Sea Devils.
The former European 100m champion, who was banned for two years for doping offenses, successfully completed a training camp in Tampa last Thursday.
Hamburg coach Jack Bicknell said: "Chambers has not only excellent speed, but also safe hands."
British sprinter Craig Pickering recently gave his opinion of Chambers in the Guardian:
Pickering is less forgiving of Chambers. "What I don't like about Dwain Chambers is that he had his two-year ban [for taking anabolic steroids] and then last year everyone seemed happy to see him back on the track. But I wasn't happy - he's a drugs cheat."
A court ordered Chambers to pay back prize money he earned from track, while he took steroids. That sort of justice might be a deterrent to cheating.
Chambers returned to athletics last June after being banned following a positive test for the steroid THG.
Under the terms of his return, he must use future track earnings to pay back any prize money he won while competing on steroids.
Seegobin said: "Personally, I think because we have so much money to pay back, if he can find another way to make a living he will."
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