The drugs crisis in athletics deepened when Calvin Harrison, America’s Olympic and world gold medallist, joined Britain’s Dwain Chambers in testing positive for a banned drug.

Harrison like Chambers is coached by the Ukrainian Remi Korchemny.

From Independent.ie:

Harrison tested positive for the stimulant modafinil when scientists reviewed 350 samples taken at the United States Championships in June. Samples were retested after the discovery of a new designer anabolic steroid which until recently was undetectable.

Sources close to the case claim Harrison is just the beginning and many more top names will emerge during the next few days. They believe as many as ten top American athletes may have tested positive for the drug used to treat the sleep disorder narcolepsy.

Doping experts are suspicious that so many athletes are suddenly testing positive for the drug and believe it may be linked to the fact that they were also taking the anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG). It is possible they believed that modafinil would act as a masking agent in case laboratories could test for THG.

Sweden’s Arne Ljungqvist, the anti-doping chief for the International Olympic Committee as well as the International Association of Athletics Federations said, “Apparently, there’s an epidemic among track athletes of narcolepsy in the United States.”

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Two decades ago, the world witnessed Ben Johnson fall to disgrace, yellow-eyed, shame-faced and seemingly faster than light, The Canadian set the image for the public perception of a drug cheat but the Johnson model is close to obsolete today.

Today, anti-doping officials share unanimity about what the cheats are using. Blood-doping, erythropoietin (EPO) and its variants, growth hormone, testosterone and designer steroids are manipulated for avoiding detection.

From Guardian.co.uk:

The principal concern surrounds blood doping, the practice of boosting the body’s capacity to transport oxygen by increasing the number of red blood cells. Once thought to be the preserve of endurance athletes such as cyclists, long-distance runners and Nordic skiers, revelations about the methods used by the sprinters Marion Jones and Dwain Chambers demonstrate that, used in the right way, blood doping can be of benefit to any athlete.

Michael Ashenden, project coordinator for Science and Industry Against Blood Doping, a Brisbane-based organisation that has developed tests to identify blood dopers, is unequivocal about the threat it poses to the integrity of the Games.

“There is no question that there will be athletes that are using drugs going to Beijing, and no one close to sport should believe otherwise. I don’t see any indication that the underlying problem has changed in the four years since Athens, and it may even have got worse.”

It is believed that these modern doping techniques and products will be powering some athletes to glory in the Olympics.

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For Darren Campbell, Britain’s highest-ranked sprinter at one time, a court appearance in San Francisco of Dwain Chambers‘ coach Remi Korchemny on charges of distributing performance enhancing drugs added further to his suspicion that his rival had not acted alone.

“Whether he knew [he was taking drugs] or not, I never believed Dwain was solely accountable. I like Dwain, but I’m upset with the whole thing . . . it’s just dirty,” the silver medalist in the 200 meters in Sydney.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Korchemny’s alleged involvement, with three other men, in what amounts to a conspiracy to provide banned substances and to deliberately circumnavigate the drug-testing programme is a severe setback in Chambers’ efforts to avoid a two-year banas a result of his positive test for the designer anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG).

There is no doubt, though, that the announcement on Thursday by John Ashcroft, the Attorney General of the United States, that criminal charges had been brought against Korchemny, Greg Anderson, a personal trainer of the baseball star Barry Bonds, and two executives of the California-based Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (Balco) – the founder and owner Victor Conte and vice-president Jim Valente – was a watershed in the fight against doping. All have pleaded not guilty.

“Who’d have thought six months ago that you would see the Attorney General of the United States waving a 42-count indictment?” said Dick Pound, the chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

Ex-President George Bush said, “The use of performance- enhancing drugs like steroids in baseball, football and other sports is dangerous, and it sends the wrong message: that there are shortcuts to accomplishment and that performance is more important than character.”

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Once the biggest sportsman of Britain, Dwain Chambers is now running for nothing when he will make a return to competition after serving a two-year ban for using anabolic steroids.

Chambers was retrospectively disqualified from races in 2002 and 2003 and was asked by the International Association of Athletics Federations to return the $350,000 he won in that period.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Chambers enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, owning three cars and a motorbike. Most of what was left went on his legal defence as he tried to clear his name after testing positive in August 2003. He has earned little during the ban period after a failed attempt to break into American football.

The IAAF yesterday requested from the BBC a copy of the interview with Chambers in which he confessed to having started taking tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) in 2002 given him by Victor Conte, the founder and owner of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative. “We have to look at the tape first and then contact Dwain,” said an IAAF spokesman last night. “Then we will follow our procedures.”

The money the IAAF will demand from Chambers, however, could pale into insignificance compared with what it will ask from Tim Montgomery if the Court of Arbitration for Sport bans him for life today for his involvement in the Balco scandal. For one race alone in 2002 Montgomery earned $250,000. That was for winning the 100 metres at the Grand Prix final, when he set a world record of 9.79sec, with Chambers equalling Linford Christie‘s European and UK best of 9.87. The United States Anti-Doping Agency has accused him of serious doping violations after a US federal investigation into Balco in California. He has denied ever taking drugs but the San Francisco Chronicle has alleged that, when he gave grand jury testimony, he admitted taking banned human growth hormone.

Chambers admitted that he took drugs for 18 months before he tested positive in 2003.

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Alvin Harrison recently created a unique but unwanted piece of history when he was suspended for a period of four years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency after admitting taking a cocktail of banned performance enhancing substances.

Alvin became the second half of the first set of twins to be banned for drugs. His brother, Calvin, was suspended for two years in August for a second doping violation involving the stimulant modafinil.

From Guardian.co.uk:

At least Alvin has done something his twin has not managed: he is the first male athlete to be banned without first failing a drug test.

Usada suspended him on the basis of a “non-analytical positive” after he admitted using a variety of banned substances since 2001 after being presented with evidence gathered by the agency during its investigation into the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative.

The list included anabolic steroids, insulin, human growth hormone, modafinil, erythropoietin (EPO) and tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), the designer drug for which Britain’s Dwain Chambers tested positive.

Harrison’s case is the second non-analytical positive involving an athlete linked to Balco, the San Francisco laboratory at the centre of the biggest drugs scandal in sporting history.

The American sprinter, Kelli White, was banned and stripped of her 100 and 200 metres gold medals from the 2003 world championship after admitting drugs offences. Like White and Chambers, Harrison had worked closely with the Ukraine-born coach Remi Korchemny, one of four men facing criminal charges in connection with their Balco involvement.

Usada said yesterday that 10 other athletes had received sanctions for positive tests for the steroid THG or modafinil, two of the drugs linked to Balco.

Alvin Harrison won 4x400m relay Olympic golds at the Atlanta and Sydney Olympic and is the third member of the US relay squad from Sydney to have either failed tests or been banned for doping, the others being his brother Calvin and Jerome Young.

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Dwain Chambers recently achieved the Beijing qualifying time for the 100 meters at a small event in Germany and will now be challenging the ban that prevented him from competing in the Olympic Games.

Under the rules of the British Olympic Association, Chambers, 30, cannot represent Britain after he failed for the designer anabolic steroid Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) in 2003.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Under the rules of the British Olympic Association, Chambers, 30, is banned from representing Britain because of the drugs test he failed in 2003 for the designer anabolic steroid Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), but he claims this is unfair and wants it lifted.

‘All the papers are with the barrister already,’ said his lawyer Nick Collins. ‘He will be going through early in the week with the intention of serving them this week.’ Collins said he expected the case to be heard in the week before the Olympic trials in Birmingham on July 11. ‘We think we have a strong action but that will obviously be for the judge to decide,’ he said.

Colin Moynihan, the chairman of the BOA, has promised that ‘money will be no object’ when it comes to keeping Chambers out of the team, despite the fact the Association posted record losses of £1.3 million last year.

It is believed that even if Chambers has his way, the world of athletics may not be an easy hunting ground for the British athlete now as in the past.

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Former drugs cheat Dwain Chambers is all set to challenge the British Olympic Association (BOA) lifetime ban that prevents him from competing in the Games.

The most expensive legal battle in British Olympic history will see the 30-year-old Londoner took advantage of perfect conditions at the EnBW Weltklasse in Biberach to end a frustrating period.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Under the rules of the BOA, Chambers is banned from representing Britain in the Olympics because of the drugs test he failed in 2003 for the designer anabolic steroid Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), but the athlete claims this is unfair and wants the ban lifted.

Time will be tight for Chambers and his legal team. The Olympic trials are due to be held on 11 July and the team must be finalised nine days later. Collins told Observer Sport last night that papers will be served on the BOA this week.

Chambers will be represented in the High Court by Jonathan Crystal, a specialist sports lawyer, whose previous clients include Brian Lara, Frankie Dettori and Graeme Souness.

‘All the papers are with the barrister already,’ said Collins. ‘He will be going through them early in the week, with the intention of serving them this week.’

Collins said he expects the case to be heard in the week leading up to the Olympic trials in Birmingham. ‘We think we have a strong action, but that will, obviously, be for the judge to decide,’ he said.

Chambers said that many people in the sport want him to disappear quietly but sprinting is what he was born to do.

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Callum Priestley has become the first British athlete to fail a drugs test ever since Dwain Chambers tested positive for Tetrahydrogestrinone in 2003.

The 21-year-old sprint hurdler, who won the 60m hurdles title at the British trials, has been handed over a provisional suspension from all competition and funding after his B sample tested positive for clenbuterol.

From Guardian.co.uk:

The UKA chief executive, Niels de Vos, said: “I am hugely disappointed that there has been a failed test. UKA continues to give 100% support to the work of UK Anti-Doping and we maintain our full commitment to drug-free sport.”

Priestley’s positive sample turned up following an out-of-competition test taken at a UKA training camp in South Africa in January. If found guilty he will face a two-year ban and a lifetime ban from competing as a British athlete in the Olympic Games.

Clenbuterol is on the World Anti-Doping Authority’s banned substance list for its performance enhancing properties that include improved aerobic capacity and a faster metabolism that helps with weight loss. In 2008, the American swimmer Jessica Hardy was forced to withdraw from the US Olympic team after testing positive for the drug, while Poland’s sprint canoeist Adam Seroczynski, who also tested positive, was disqualified from the K-2 1,000m event at the Beijing Olympic Games and subsequently banned from the sport for two years.

Clenbuterol is commonly known as an ingredient in drugs prescribed for those suffering from chronic breathing disorders like asthma.

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The first athlete from Britain to be banned for using performance enhancing drugs, Dwain Chambers, will be welcomed back into the British team, the new national head coach said.

Dutchman Charles van Commenee told the BBC that Chambers is a very good athlete and he is more than welcome back in the team after serving his sentence.

From Foxsports.com.au:

Chambers has a lifetime ban from the Olympic Games after testing positive for designer steroid THG and in July saw London’s High Court reject an appeal which would have allowed him to compete in Beijing.

“Dwain has served his sentence, he is more than welcome back in the team,” Dutchman Charles van Commenee told the BBC. “He’s a very good athlete.

“Everybody who serves their sentence is welcome.

“I’m fully aware of the restrictions given by the BOA (British Olympic Association) and we’ll live by that as well. If an athlete wants to challenge that, that’s okay, and we’ll live by the result.”

Following his ban, Chambers admitted to taking the performance-enhancing substances and subsequently revealed he started taking THG 18 months before he was caught cheating.

That led to him losing the 100m gold medal the Londoner won at the 2002 European Championships and also cost his teammates the gold they’d won in the 4x100m relay.

London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe, an admirer of van Commenee, said that there should be no place in athletics for the likes of Chambers.

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Britain’s Dwain Chambers clocked a championship record 9.99 seconds to win the men’s 100 meters at the European team championship in Bergen recently.

The second and third positions were taken by Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre with 10.02 and seconds and Italy’s Emanuele Di Gregorio with 10.20 seconds.

From in.reuters.com:

It was Chambers’s best performance since he ran 9.99 at the 2001 world championships and was 0.02 seconds outside his personal best, set in Seville in 1999.

The 32-year-old was banned from athletics for two years in 2003 for testing positive for steroids. He returned to competition in 2006.

Chambers is expected to compete at the European championships in Barcelona in July.

At the end of the first day of in the team championship, Russia led Britain by 209 points to 188. The event concludes on Sunday.

It seems that the woes of Chambers in context to use of steroids are now over and he is all set to prove critics wrong again.

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