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Dwain Chambers
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Should he barred from Athletics for life or has he served his time? I'm split on this, I still remember the disgust and disappointment of finding out that certain athletes had taken drugs when I was younger. Now I'm older I'm wondering if someone genuinely has turned their back on it after being punished should they continue to 'restraint of trade' for life.
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He could be used quite effectively as spokesman againts the use of drugs in sport.
How many years was he competing before he got caught? Are you telling me he only did it once? Give me a break, he'll have been cheating for years and will be one of the few unlucky ones to get caught. They had a former supplier of illegal drugs on Hard Talk and he revealed that the top level of athletics is an even playing field, it's just not the playing field that everyone thought. He claimed that clean athletes are the exception rather than the rule, and it certainly would appear that way with every new golden boy or girl from America ending up getting caught.
They should either impose lifetime bans or stop whinging about it. They handed him his penalty for doing what he did, he served his suspension and so he should be allowed to compete.
If people want to get angry that he's been allowed to compete then that's fine, but don't direct it at the athlete, direct it at the people who gave him the puny punishment.
Should there be life bans? Probably, but they didn't give one out so that's that.
Funnily enough most of the outspoken atheletes are also starngely quiet about Linford Christie's role in UK Athletics... funnily enough the clique things seems to apply there too :chin:
Christina Ohuruogu missed three drugs tests and was justifiably punished for her oversight, but it also highlighted the broader scale of missed drugs tests in the UK, where hundreds of athletes in many different sports have two strikes against their name.
Drugtesting agencies are always playing catch-up to drugs manufacturers and users and sometimes there can be uncertainty, e.g. the nandrolone cases (naturally produced in the body) but Chambers' case is unequivocal. The British Olympic Committee is right to impose future olympic bans on any UK athlete testing positive for drugs- I just wish other countries would follow suit... particularly the soviet and ex-soviet bloc states which notoriously go AWOL and return.
P.s. can't wait to see some incredible performances by Chinese athletes this year.