Such A Chambles

Just a quick line over the controversy surrounding Dwain Chambers as has been bugging me most of the week!

So he won the British trials and was rightly picked to represent Great Britain, so why o why is he suffering. Yes he is different from the other athletes but the difference between him and the rest is not that he is a cheat but he is a cheat which has owned up.

He has done wrong and he knows that but if the rules were put in correctly at the start by the head of UKathletics and the IOC to ban FOR LIFE athletes who have taken or take drugs then the issue like many others over the years would not have been a problem.

To blame the selection of Chambers forced through the underperformance of other athletes such as Craig Pickering is not only unfair but cowardly offering the selectors an easy way out of the situation. So Pickering bottled it, good, if Pickering can't deal with the pressure of the British trials then how is he going to ever cope in the Indoor World Championships let alone The Olympics.

And this whole malarkey about not paying for his flights, accommodation or training is ridiculous if he is going to compete for Great Britain then surely we should give him equal if not better facilities than the rest as he seems the only one who will avoid the trap that is British mentality, so he said 'no British athlete can win a gold without drugs' - good point!

I also find the comment made by Kelly Holmes blasting Chambers a 'cheat' very intriguing and somewhat ironic. So there she was at the age of 34 winning not only one gold medal but two in the 800m and 1500m both extremely tough endurance races. This all came after she had suffered a number of leg injuries while training in 2003 leading up to Athens and was diagnosed by a doctor with clinical depression going on to take herbal anti-depressants is that all the doctor prescribe her though!