Chambers' Career Stalls As Drug Abuse Brings Two-Year Suspension

The Herald › February 25, 2004

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THE final irony, which is sure to haunt him in the chamber of horrors to which he is now consigned, is that former Great Britain athletics team captain Dwain Chambers actually ran slower during the year in which he ingested a drug custom-designed to elude detection while making him go faster.

The sprinter went to the block yesterday protesting his innocence of knowingly having used tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) and considering an appeal against a two-year suspension. Amid acres of legal rhetoric, the fundamental fact is that a banned substance was in his urine. How it got there (his coach is among four men charged in the US on 42 doping counts) is irrelevant said a UK Athletics disciplinary hearing. It was ruled chemically or pharmacologically to be related to a banned steroid.

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Chambers' Career Stalls As Drug Abuse Brings Two-Year Suspension

Chambers may appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but otherwise will be banned for life from the Olympics. He would have been among the 100-metre title favourites th...

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