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Stephen Pollard

ByStephen Pollard, Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Dwain Chambers - cheat

February 13, 2008 24:00
1 min read

The poor dear: "I'm being made to feel like a leper," [Dwain] Chambers told the Sun newspaper on Wednesday.


"A terrible stigma has been attached to me but people need to know I am clean."

Maybe he's being treated like a leper because he should be. Maybe he's being treated like a leper because he is a cheat who should't be allowed near a race track for the rest of his life. Maybe he's being treated like a leper because he has - to be polite - a bloody cheek in coming back.

And maybe the athletics authorities have only themselves to blame, not least for readmitting Christine Ohuruogu into the fold. As Jeff Powell puts it: As Dwain Chambers galloped away with the 60 metres dash in Sheffield...this convicted steroids abuser was said to have created a nightmare for UK athletics officials apparently obliged now to put him in their team for the World Indoor Championships.