Chambers and Millar may still take part in London 2012 Olympic Games
The British Olympic Association has recently stated its intentions of providing indiscriminate support to those athletes that have been placed under bans due to doping for taking part in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
However, this is subject to the clearance of the doping ban that has been placed upon some of the hopeful Team GB athletes.
Two of the famous British athletes, David Millar and Dwain Chambers, find themselves under a lifetime ban for doping. Millar has earned himself the honour of leading the British men’s team to win the title of the world road race that took place in Copenhagen
last year in September. Millar has now actively taken up the anti-doping campaign. Millar had previously confessed to taking the banned product EPO, which gives a boost to the blood of an individual after which the athlete had been placed under a ban for two
years time.
Chambers on the other hand is another promising athlete whose recent performance in the 60-metre sprint showed him at his season best. Like Millar, Chambers had also been placed under a two-year ban for the intake of the THG steroid.
The fate of the banned athletes would be decided in April, when the Court of Arbitration for Sport gives its decision on the case between the BOA as well as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). In the event that the BOA loses its case in the CAS, the banned
athletes such as Millar and Chambers would have a chance to participate in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Andy Hunt, who is the chief executive of the BOA, expressed himself on the matter in the following terms, “If we did lose the case and therefore athletes with a previous serious doping violation are allowed to be eligible, should those athletes be nominated
to us by the governing bodies and they be eligible we are likely to ratify those nominations and they will be treated just like any other athlete. We will give them 100 per cent support just like we would for any other athlete competing for Team GB. We are
very, very clear about that.”
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