BOA await Chambers verdict

12 April 2012

Dwain Chambers' High Court crusade prevented the British Olympic Association from naming more than one of the three 100 metres sprinters they intend to send to the Beijing Games.

The former drugs cheat was unsurprisingly omitted from the list of 47 track and field athletes whose Olympic places were confirmed by the BOA on Monday afternoon.

But UK Athletics will be forced to pick him if a judge grants an injunction against his lifetime Olympic ban at a hearing in London on Thursday. He would then line up alongside Simeon Williamson, who was selected after finishing second behind Chambers at the Aviva National Championships title in Birmingham on Saturday.

That victory would normally have guaranteed Chambers' selection for the Olympics.

But the 30-year-old is currently banned from representing Great Britain at future Games after testing positive for the steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) almost five years ago.

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