Why is Dwain Chambers still competing?

singist · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:03

Can someone explain why this **** is still competing in sport? I thought that he had been caught taking drugs and banned?

He is being lauded at present and I can't figure out why he's being allowed to compete at all, let alone given a medal.

cheets64 · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:06

He has served his ban, simple.

roid · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:14

cheets64 said:
He has served his ban, simple.

Exactly..

Hen_Dawg · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:20

I don't think they give out lifetime bans

placeholder · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:30

He served his ban. He has every right to persue his living.

singist · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:37

I obviously don't keep up with these things but I thought that lifetime bans were given out to these cheats?

Psycho Ned · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:40

Nope 2 year ban for first offence I think you get a life one if you get caught again.

This will rumble on all summer as Chambers is eligible to run for GB in the World Championships (he's banned for life from the Olympics) and he's almost certain to get there as he's our number 1 sprinter they'll have no choice to let him run either as he'll take them to court if they don't.

Visionary · 8 Mar 2009 at 18:49

I was find it funny when a cheater/drug user in sport gets the same sort of stick as a murderer or peadophile or something.

singist · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:13

Visionary said:
I was find it funny when a cheater/drug user in sport gets the same sort of stick as a murderer or peadophile or something.

Not really the same but feelings do run high.

semi-pro waster · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:14

He's served his ban and that means he should be allowed to compete because those are the rules at present. The problem is that in taking drugs he will almost certainly have altered his physique permanantly and therefore the effects from his taking drugs might well still have an influence even now, long after he has finished taking them which means it is still not fair to the other competitors (assuming of course that they aren't also taking something).

placeholder · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:38

I think we could simplify the whole thing by allowing performance enhancing drugs. It would save a lot of confusion and would make athletics very interesting to watch.

Morba · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:54

singist said:
Can someone explain why this **** is still competing in sport? I thought that he had been caught taking drugs and banned?

He is being lauded at present and I can't figure out why he's being allowed to compete at all, let alone given a medal.

eh?
if he wasnt allowed to compete then he wouldnt be there. simple really.

*Chris · 8 Mar 2009 at 19:57

placeholder said:
I think we could simplify the whole thing by allowing performance enhancing drugs. It would save a lot of confusion and would make athletics very interesting to watch.

Not all male athletes should be forced to shrink the size of their testicles in order to compete.

elroberto · 8 Mar 2009 at 21:20

*Chris said:
Not all male athletes should be forced to shrink the size of their testicles in order to compete.

It might have helped Linford Christie.

Tummy · 8 Mar 2009 at 21:21

I think sports men who are found using performance enhancing drugs (or whatever you want to call them) should be banned from the sport full stop.

Weebull · 8 Mar 2009 at 22:32

semi-pro waster said:
The problem is that in taking drugs he will almost certainly have altered his physique permanantly...

See I can't help but think this myself. Prior to the drugs he wasn't even the best sprinter in the UK, let alone Europe, and yet now we're expected to believe this current form is all from purely "sober" training in the last couple of years, during which he swanned off to pretend to be an American football player. Hmm ok.

SpeedFreak · 8 Mar 2009 at 23:04

Weebull said:
See I can't help but think this myself. Prior to the drugs he wasn't even the best sprinter in the UK, let alone Europe, and yet now we're expected to believe this current form is all from purely "sober" training in the last couple of years, during which he swanned off to pretend to be an American football player. Hmm ok.

i believe you are wrong with that one.

Pigeon_Killer · 8 Mar 2009 at 23:10

He's an utter **** and should've banned for life. Some people deserve a second chance and should be allowed to compete but not him.

zophiel · 8 Mar 2009 at 23:20

they need to bring in similar rules to the usa team, where they got banned and a prison sentence.

trackrat · 8 Mar 2009 at 23:26

After reading an article in the mail on Sunday it appears he owes the sports governing body $170,000 from his winnings while he was taking drugs and they are saying if he does not pay it back they will end his athletics career.
As he does not have that sort of money it says his career is effectively over.