To my knowledge, none of the above got their bans overturned (and quite right too)even if there had been 'plenty of support', which I doubt. Kunjufu, save your vexation for something/one more worthwile. Chambers and others who cheat aren't worth it.

Athletics is clearly this mans one and only meal ticket, why would you jeopardise it, the man is dim, pure and simple dim. If his appeal fails then his only hope is for some white woman to pity him and take him up to get her name and face in the papers.

The question asked is Dwain Chambers getting a raw deal? In my opinion the simple answer is no. This ruling about not being able to participate in the Olympics if you were caught was in place while Chambers (along with everyone else) was over in that California laboratory injecting themselves with their THG or whatever they using. Track and Field has enough bad publicity & negativity swirling around it.

By the way, it’s just been announced Chambers has lost his case in trying to run in Beijing.

Yes, him did too dyam tief!

Why he did it in the first place Is really beyond me...considering he can beat the British lot on one leg..had the game sawn up...shame man..now what NEXT??

astmartins - why he odne it? well it's all about money, Olympians aint like the old days, it's their bread and butter now. Craven dog lose his bone.

Was it not later proved, that the actually drugs that Ben Johnson took, actually slowed him down and that had he not have taken anything, might have actually have run faster.. I am quoting from a report that the tv program World In Action did after the event gossip had died down..

Chambers set to put the record straight

BY Joel Campbell


Athlete spills the beans on his ‘date from hell’ with Dame Kelly
DWAIN CHAMBERS has promised to tell the truth and nothing but the truth in his hard-hitting autobiography, which will be published in October.


Chamber should have been in Beijing competing in the Olympic Games but as most of the world already knows he took drugs and was banned from the spectacle for life.


The Londoner’s fight for the right to compete on the ultimate sporting platform turned into a bitter war against the British Olympic Association (BOA) earlier this year which lead to a much publicised High Court battle which Chambers lost.


During the period leading up to the landmark court case the sprinter’s good name was sullied as just about everyone with a pulse expressed their opinion, some of which was unsavoury and hard for the atlete to stomach.


A lesser man would have crumbled under the unrelenting intensity of the media spotlight but instead the furore seemed to inspire Chambers.


His 100m victory at the British Olympic trials was a measure of the 30-year-old’s mental fortitude but his efforts were in vain as the High Court judge ultimately ruled that Chambers wouldn’t be able to go to Beijing.


Talking candidly to The Voice, Chambers revealed just how he got through one of the most testing times in his life and how his new book, entitled Race Against Me, would be the first time that he would be able to tell the world just how he felt about everything he has endured since the day he failed a doping test.


He reaclled: “I knew I was up against a huge obstacle in challenging the BOA and what helped me get through it was a positive mind set.


“Getting such an establishment to change their rules for little old me wasn’t going to be easy but we were optimistic and of he opinion that my performances on the track would help change their mind.


“Although people objected about the possibility of me going to Beijing there were people who felt just as strongly that I should be included on the team.


“But with hindsight we now know that any chance of winning the case may have been a little too good to be true. But it was worth a try because if I didn’t try I wouldn’t have gone anyway.”


In the eagerly awaited book Chambers describes his long-term partner and mother of his children Leonie, as his rock.


Scanning through the crowds at most of the meetings Chambers competed at this year, including his world indoor championship silver medal winning run in Valencia earlier this year, and it was only a matter of time before you saw Leonie.


A diminutive figure in stature, Chambers says her support and strength of character were immense.




He enthused: “Leonie was huge in the sense that she was always there and supporting what we were doing.


“It’s a we situation because I was fighting to re-establish myself in the sport, go to the Olympics and win a medal which would have helped me provide for my family.


“Her contribution was huge, just having someone there by your side was really important.”


Chambers says writing his book has allowed him to get the things that irked at him the most off of his chest.


The frustration of being misunderstood when he said in a BBC interview that most athletes would have to take drugs in order to win anything, as well as cheap jibes angled his way by former athletes who he considered friends will all be addressed in his autobiography.


It’s a chance for him to set the record straight on a few issues as well as giving the part time track and field fan a greater insight into the sport as he sees it.


Chambers told The Voice that there is nothing worse than doing an interview and saying something that is then twisted and spun in ways beyond your control. Writing the book was his way of taking back some of the control.


He says: “Every time I said something honest about what I feel it seemed to get spun in a negative way.


“But at the end of the day they are trying to cover up some of the realities in the sport. This is my chance to get it out there and nobody else can alter what I say, this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.


“It will give people an insight into what goes on in the sport the way I saw it, the people who were instrumental in my decision making.



“I found that every time I did an interview I was getting condemned but I then realised its because no one has ever done what I have, no one has exposed it for what it is.


“All you ever hear of is a world class athlete doing well, testing positive and then they go away, no one ever comes back.


“Added to that is the fact that I came back better than I was before, which is something I can’t explain.


“I put it down to the fact that I have now accepted that I was born to run. Everyone is blessed with a talent and this is mine, it’s taken fifteen years to realise what I have got.


“If I had the knowledge I have now before I went to the US then my decision making would have been different.


“A wise man once told me that a man who falls over the same stone twice deserves to get hurt. So I thought, ‘OK, I’m not going down that road again’ and I started to do a lot of soul searching and thinking.


“I started to read a lot and became a new man. Family life has changed me a lot, because the decisions I made when I was younger couldn’t be made now because it wouldn’t just hurt me it would hurt them as well.”


The book book is bound to titillate for those who are into track and field but adding another dynamic to the plethora of headline grabbing issues will be his sex life.


Chambers will reveal the name of an England footballer’s sister who he had dalliances with and he will spill the beans on a date from hell with Kelly Holmes and what he really thinks of the athletics Dame.


He said: “There is also a chapter called Girls, Girls, Girls where I talk openly about the women in my life.


“As sports men we don’t tend to talk about that side of being in the limelight. I was fortunate enough to have experienced a lot of what I did before Leonie but you will have to pick up the book to find out what I talk about, it will be one of many juicy aspects to the book.”


Chambers says he is determined to work with youngsters to try his best to discourage them from following the route he took.


From now until the start of new athletics season will be filled with trips to schools up and down the country.


Irrespective of what people think, Chambers believes that dealing with problems from a position of knowledge and understanding is better than sticking your head in the ground and hoping it will go away.


His belief is rather than hoping no one experiences what he did, educating the next generation is key.


He said: “Long term plans include going out and doing seminars with kids and educate those that want to learn.


“There will be a lot of people that object to me doing it but at the end of the day they are only reducing my ability to try and stop others going down the same path as me.



“If I can get to them early enough they won’t ever see what I did as an option.


“I’m also in the process of becoming a patron for the Damilola Taylor Trust and I am in the process of setting up an initiative called the Second Chance academy, where we are getting the kids off of the streets.


“I want to help youngsters who aspire to be great. I don’t want them to be influenced like I was into making hasty decisions.


“Things can be done progressively with the right people around you and that’s what I didn’t have.


“I want to help in sport and in life in general because once you can learn to focus on what you want and keep that train of thought, no matter what, you can achieve what you want”

Voice Online :: Chambers set to put the record straight

Vezz as for Christine Ohuruogu i don't know if you know this but she did not actually fail to turn up to any drug tests. The British sports team 3 times a year turn up unannounced to test athletes. Athletes are meant to inform them where they will be five days a week for an hour everyday so that testers can turn up unannounced.
What happened to Christine i think was a case of bad luck and miscommunication. Even one day that the team arrived to test her unannounced she had to change places where she normally trains as there was a problem as the grounds that she normally trains in was in use due to a school meet. As for the other two times i think that something else happened as well.
You cannot always predict things. For that 'crime' it would have been an injustice to end her career for that. Don't forget that Christine had also tested clear for other drug tests that were not unannounced during this time.

As for Dwain well i think maybe if he really wanted he could go and run for another country. Linford Christie picked up his 100m Gold in his mid 30's so it might well not be all be over for Dwain but competition is fierce out there and he probably would not get anywhere with the likes of Usain Bolt on the circuit.
I am sure victory for him would be sweet if he came back and beat the UK team. The guy brought it on himself but i do still feel a bit sorry for him. People do make mistakes sometimes.

As for Linford Christie he has been dumped by all sporting media. I am sure that he would have made a good reporter but he is ostracised now. Again he did it to himself but it is still a bit sad to see.