Chambers: I feel like a leper
DISGRACED sprinter Dwain Chambers claims he has been made to "feel like a leper" on his return to the sport having served a ban for failing a drugs test.
The 29-year-old yesterday won his battle to be part of the British team at next month's World Indoor Championships in Valencia even though the UK Athletics selection committee were "unanimous in their desire not to select him".
Chambers was banned for two years after testing positive for the designer steroid THG in 2003, but has since made his return to the sport and on Sunday won the 60 metres trial at Sheffield which should have automatically guaranteed him a place on the team for Spain.
UKA, in the face of the threat of legal action, begrudgingly selected him, but made a point of stating their objections.
Chambers has now hit back, saying: "I'm being made to feel like a leper.
"A terrible stigma has been attached to me, but people need to know that I am clean.
"Yes, I did something wrong. I did the crime but I've done my time and now I've moved on."
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Last Updated:
13 February 2008 9:38 AM
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