British sprinter Dwain Chambers lifetime ban overturned – may participate in Olympics

Dwain Chambers. PHOTO/Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters

British sprinter Dwain Chambers will get the green light to take part in the London Olympics on Monday despite his “doping-blighted past”, media reports claimed on Sunday.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) will reveal their decision on Monday at 1400GMT (9:00AM EST) which is expected to slap down the British Olympic Association’s (BOA) bylaw that bans convicted British drugs cheats from taking part in the Games under a lifetime ban.

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has fought the BOA’s policy of imposing life bans for the Olympics arguing that it contravened their code.

Both the BBC and the Daily Telegraph reported on Sunday that CAS will back WADA in Monday’s decision.

Despite the impending ruling, both Chambers and Millar would still have to achieve the qualifying standards for July’s Olympics.

“The British Olympic Association (BOA) can confirm that today, it has received from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) the written decision in the arbitration between the BOA and the World Anti-Doping Association (WADA),” said a BOA statement.

“As the decision is to be announced first by CAS, and out of respect for CAS and the Arbitration Panel, the BOA will be offering no comment today.”

Chambers, the former European 100m champion Chambers, who won 60m bronze in this year’s world indoor event in Istanbul last month, was banned for two years after testing positive for the anabolic steroid THG in 2004.

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