[TheManc]

I may be in the minority here but I think he should be allowed to go.

If you go to prison for doing drugs then you do your time, and are allowed to continue your life after the sentence has finished. Its no different here. Plus he's our best hope. I don't really follow athletics but I always used to like Chambers.

[SALFORD RED]

Originally Posted by TheManc

I may be in the minority here but I think he should be allowed to go.

If you go to prison for doing drugs then you do your time, and are allowed to continue your life after the sentence has finished. Its no different here. Plus he's our best hope. I don't really follow athletics but I always used to like Chambers.

Difference is he hasn't "done his time".
He hasn't served his ban, he was trying to get out of it.
Anyway he's not going, and quite rightly so.


British sprinter Dwain Chambers will not be able to run at the Olympics after he lost his attempt to overturn his lifetime ban.

The 30-year-old took his case to secure an injunction against the British Olympic Association by-law to the High Court, but the ruling went against him.

Under BOA rules, the sprinter was banned from future Games after testing positive for the steroid THG in 2003.

Chambers had argued that the ban was an unfair restraint of trade.

But Mr Justice Mackay refused to grant an injunction to temporarily suspend the lifetime ban before a full hearing - which is now not expected to go ahead - in March next year.

In his summing up, Mr Mackay said Chambers' right to work was not a good enough reason to overturn the ban, while the last-minute timing had also worked against him.

"Many people both inside and outside sport would see this by-law as unlawful," said Mr Mackay.

"(But) In my judgment it would take a much better case than the claimant has presented to persuade me to overturn the status quo at this stage and compel his selection for the Games."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...cs/7503792.stm
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[RichardsReds]

Good.

Uphold the rules for the good of the sport.

[TheManc]

Originally Posted by SALFORD RED

Difference is he hasn't "done his time".
He hasn't served his ban, he was trying to get out of it.
Anyway he's not going, and quite rightly so.


British sprinter Dwain Chambers will not be able to run at the Olympics after he lost his attempt to overturn his lifetime ban.

The 30-year-old took his case to secure an injunction against the British Olympic Association by-law to the High Court, but the ruling went against him.

Under BOA rules, the sprinter was banned from future Games after testing positive for the steroid THG in 2003.

Chambers had argued that the ban was an unfair restraint of trade.

But Mr Justice Mackay refused to grant an injunction to temporarily suspend the lifetime ban before a full hearing - which is now not expected to go ahead - in March next year.

In his summing up, Mr Mackay said Chambers' right to work was not a good enough reason to overturn the ban, while the last-minute timing had also worked against him.

"Many people both inside and outside sport would see this by-law as unlawful," said Mr Mackay.

"(But) In my judgment it would take a much better case than the claimant has presented to persuade me to overturn the status quo at this stage and compel his selection for the Games."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...cs/7503792.stm
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Oh fair enough, I thought he was just banned from all athletics for a few years.

[andersons_left_foot]

hes cheated he shouldnt be aloud end of, he shouldnt be aloud to compete in sports end of speacily after his vain attempts to play american football and rugby leauge lol i dread to think what hes gunna try next ice hockey perhaps?

i think there drugs in ever sports if that lance armstrong things true than that really is sad for one of the greatest sports men in history isit sumate to do with that balco case? for e.g. barry bonds (baseball player) hits the record for the most home runs in history then get caught up a drugs cheating thing now theres a massive court case its a farse.

and as for drugs in football well i 'heard' a rumour that in jose first year in charge at chelski they were blood doping hense why john terry could come back from injurys so fast etc weather its true or not well never know seeing as its almost impossable to trace