Welcome to the first non-Clemens post here in years (it seems). The UK appears horrified that sports bosses selected drug-cheat Dwain Chambers to run on their Olympic-level World-Championship team. To the Daily Mail:
Dwain Chambers sparked outrage in British athletics on Tuesday after he was selected to run at next month's World Indoor Championships.
Double Olympic champions Dame Kelly Holmes and Lord Coe both spoke out against the self-confessed drugs cheat, while Chambers' young sprint rival Craig Pickering insisted the former European 100metre champion would not be welcome in the British team for Valencia. 'I don't think it puts us in a good light as a country allowing a cheat, who has admitted he is a cheat, to represent us,' said Dame Kelly.
UK Athletics selectors also revealed that they were unanimous in not wishing to select Chambers but said they were left with little choice because he had achieved the qualifying time and won their indoor trials at Sheffield on Sunday.
They also knew that any decision to sideline him could result in a potentially ruinous legal battle.
Two year ago Chamber earned a 2 year ban from Olympic competition when he admitted using BALCO-supplied THG. Now he is back with everyone else in the UK's vengeance.
And last night Pickering broke rank with those athletes who have been supporting the 29-year-old.
The European Indoor 60m silver medallist, who will be involved in a race-off against Simeon Williamson to see who takes second spot in the team behind Chambers, said: 'It looks like Simeon or me will be left at home. I do not really welcome him back but it is out of my control, so I just get on with it.'
Although banned from the Olympics, Chambers could challenge that nullification soon. WADA's Dick Pound thinks Chamber might head to court:
Pound, a member of the International Olympic Committee, added: "I have personal, visceral issues with this person taking part in the Olympics but doping is governed by rules."
Prominent sports lawyer Nick Bitel agreed with Pound and believed the athlete's best chance would be in challenging the ban on the ground that it hinders him in making a living.
He said: "The BOA has always argued that running in the Olympics is not a trade, it is a privilege. I fear that is a difficult position for them because it does add to an athlete's value - most of them have a clause in their shoe contract which says they earn money if they make the Olympics.
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UK Athletics selectors also revealed that they were unanimous in not wishing to select Chambers but said they were left with little choice because he had achieved the qualifying time and won their indoor trials at Sheffield on Sunday.
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