Chambers in court for Olympic 'drugs' ruling
It is make or break for Britain’s top sprinter Dwain Chambers today in his bid to compete in next month’s Olympic Games in Beijing.
He is seeking a High Court order to lift a lifetime ban on competing in Olympic events imposed by the British Olympic Association (BOA) because he once used performance-enhancing drugs.
He has already qualified to compete in the Olympic team after winning the 100 metres at the Olympic athletics trials in Birmingham last Saturday and setting his best time of the year of 10 seconds.
Now he faces High Court judge Mr Justice Mackay who will decide whether to grant an injunction suspending the BOA by-law until a full trial on the issue next March.
It will be a test of the rule which bans those who have used performance-enhancing drugs from the British team unless there are mitigating circumstances.
Chambers, 30, knew that having served a two-year suspension for using the designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), there was no chance in pursuing the mitigating circumstances route through the BOA.
