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Should Dwain Chambers be allowed to compete at the Olympics?

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Now that he has won his race which would enable him to be selected for the Olympic team should his ban be lifted or not?

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  1. eh? I thought he'd gone to rugby league?


  2. No he should not. He should be banned from competing in all competitions and so should anybody else caught taking drugs. Then it would be clear to everyone who takes drugs if caught that is the end of your career.

  3. I can see why other athletes don't want him to compete, because he has seriously ruined the reputation of the sport (as have many others)

    When you think about "normal" criminals, though, we pay our taxes for them to spend time in prison, where they are given the opportunity to train for work and rehabilitate themselves.  

    I think the two are linked.  Chambers has confessed his guilt and "paid his dues".  Why shouldn't he be allowed back?

  4. his ban was for two years so he should be allowed to run.

  5. He did the crime, He did the time, let him run.

    He will more than likely be competing against drug users.

  6. He won the race but are the drug test results through yet !!!!

    The UK is the only country who bans athletes for life, it is a conundrum but if I absolutely had to say one way or the other I would say the ban should remain.

  7. stop him taking part in the games, he knew the rules, he is lucky he is allowed to stay here.

  8. No once they have been caught doing drugs of any sort they should be banned

  9. no he cheated and chose to take drugs, thats not a good example for btitain

  10. Does anyone seriously believe that this amn will not do it again, look at his muscle build compared to all the others. He cannot be trusted, hewants to win at ALL COST. He should be banned from athletics for the rest of his life. The authorities won't be too quick to test him again for fear of victimisation and he knows it. What are we teaching our up and coming athletes, it's not really right to take drugs, but if you do get caught there will be just a short 2year ban and then you can carry on as if nothing happened

  11. No, he's a proven cheat and the fact that he has served the ban set out by the IOC, he is still in breach of the British Olympic Association byelaw's. He knew the byelaw's before he was caught cheating and shouldn't now be trying to bypass them.

    What would happen if we all decided to try and challenge rules we didn't like or didn't want to comply with? Anarchy.

    He's a cheat and cheats have no place at the Olympics. And while I'm on my soapbox, China should never have been awarded the 2008 Olympics, either.

  12. No - the rules state that if found guilty of using performance enhancing drugs you cannot qualify for the olympics - this cheater took drugs and got caught.

    He has to live with the result as he knew the penalty but still decided to cheat.

  13. omg I dont know!

    Yes because he is our best chance of a medal and he qualified fairly, but no because a lifetime ban should mean just that.

  14. yes, so what he cheated, dont they all. he served his ban now let the guy run. people love to kick a guy when he is down.

  15. I believe he should for he has served his sentence and if he is now clean then he should be allowed to run in China.

  16. Yes, because I believe in a level playing field. Apart from two other countries, every country, including the US, bans for two years only. As athletics is an international sport, it seems unfair to take someones earning capacity away for more than the accepted two years.

    I am certainly not condoning drug taking, but lets be consistent, whatever period of ban is agreed to. Moreover, why should we impose special rules for the Olympics.

    The drugs ban, it would appear, has not always been applied to certain select US sprinters in the past.

    I think Chambers should now be allowed to compete.

  17. No.

    rewarding a cheat & letting him compete is wrong.

    to allow him leniency now would send the wrong message to others tempted to cut-corners & cheat.

    they would be mad to let him back now.

  18. We need all the talent we can muster these days so I would say yes, lets all be sporting and forget what has passed.!!

  19. Hi Chipmunk

    It will be interesting to see the decision. A lifetime Olympic ban will not be overturned easily

    Quite often "drugs cheats" are just unlucky to have taken perscribed medication containing banned substances. I don't know if that was the case in this instance

  20. No. The British rules were clear before he cheated, that anyone guilty of drug-taking would face a life ban. He knew the rules, why should they be changed? The International Olympic Committee would do well to send the right message by banning for life all cheats. The problem might actually improve.

  21. No. definitely not. He cheated by taking drugs.

    give a place to someone that does not take and has never taken performance enhancing drugs.

    "do well for his country" then why did he take drugs in the first place and bring shame on his country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  22. Personally I don't think so, rules are rules and he knew the consequences before he broke them. I am not even sure on what grounds he is being allowed to appeal the ruling currently preventing him from doing so.

    It doesn't send out a very positive message about illegal drug use if he is allowed.
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