Image courtesy of Sportinglife.com Dwain Chambers will find out the outcome of his High Court challenge against his Olympic ban later today.
He has the necessary qualifying time for the 100m and won the British trials on Saturday in Birmingham but he is seeking an injunction against his lifetime ban which would mean he could compete at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Chambers was given the ban in 2003 by the British Olympic Association after testing positive for the anabolic steroid THG, and even admitted to taking the drug 18 months prior to being caught.
Under the British Olympic Association regulations, this would mean that an athlete (in this case Chambers) forfeits the opportunity to compete at the Olympics once found to be taking performing enhancing drugs. However, Chambers argues that he is being punished for the same offence twice and that the by-law is an unreasonable restraint of trade.
Although he has already served his 2 year ban in which he spent time playing American Football and also rugby, I still personally I think that the ban should hold, after all he openly admitted to taking the drug, and therefore knew the consequences if he were to be found out!
What do you think, should he be given a second chance?
…I’ll be back after this short intermission with the result of the ruling! (“,)
He has the necessary qualifying time for the 100m and won the British trials on Saturday in Birmingham but he is seeking an injunction against his lifetime ban which would mean he could compete at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Chambers was given the ban in 2003 by the British Olympic Association after testing positive for the anabolic steroid THG, and even admitted to taking the drug 18 months prior to being caught.
Under the British Olympic Association regulations, this would mean that an athlete (in this case Chambers) forfeits the opportunity to compete at the Olympics once found to be taking performing enhancing drugs. However, Chambers argues that he is being punished for the same offence twice and that the by-law is an unreasonable restraint of trade.
Although he has already served his 2 year ban in which he spent time playing American Football and also rugby, I still personally I think that the ban should hold, after all he openly admitted to taking the drug, and therefore knew the consequences if he were to be found out!
What do you think, should he be given a second chance?
…I’ll be back after this short intermission with the result of the ruling! (“,)
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