In April sprinter Dwain Chambers managed to successfully overturn his lifetime Olympic ban from the BOA (British Olympic Association), allowing him to compete at this summer’s games.
Since then Chambers has failed to achieve the necessary qualifying time of 10.18 seconds for his event, the 100M.
The British trials in Birmingham tonight represent Chambers last chance to do, if he fails his chances of running in the Olympics are over.
I for one hope he fails in his attempts to qualify, he has been frankly nothing but an embarrassment to British athletics since it was discovered he was a drugs cheat back in 2003.
After serving his initial ban Chambers returned to sprinting, he also tried to break into the NFL, but ended up in NFL Europe.
Then came his laughable attempt to become a Rugby League star, he played about 20 minutes of one game and with his tail between his legs went back to sprinting.
The Olympics is the oldest and most sacred of all the global sporting events, so the idea that its integrity should be sullied by allowing someone like Chambers the chance to compete is saddening to say the least.
If he doesn’t clock the required time tonight, the irony of it all would be sweet, considering how long he spent fighting to get his ban lifted.
Perhaps the most ironic thing of all is the prior to his cheating Chambers was actually Britain’s top sprinter, he was the only one who could run under 10 seconds and represented our best chance of an individual sprint medal at the 2004 games in Athens.
Hopefully justice will be done and Chambers won’t get the chance to compete at London 2012, and then hopefully he will retire and we will never have to hear from him again.
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