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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Floyd Mayweather Jr and the welterweight champion Shane Mosley will undergo Olympic-style drug testing for their 1 May fight in Las Vegas that they hope will establish a new standard for boxing.

Representatives of the two fighters joined Travis Tygart of the US Anti-Doping Agency on a conference call for discussing the program that is more extensive than the testing that presently falls under the jurisdiction of state athletic commissions.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Mayweather and Mosley will be subjected to an unlimited number of unannounced blood and urine tests before and after the fight, and the results will be stored so USADA can test them in the future. The samples are screened for all drugs currently banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, including human growth hormone and designer steroids such as THG.

Most state athletic commissions test only urine samples, which Tygart said cannot detect at least four performance-enhancing substances, including HGH.

“For the first time, you have professional athletes in the sport of boxing approaching us to implement an anti-doping programme,” Tygart said. “These athletes are courageous in their position and their desire to be held to the most stringent anti-doping standard.”

Mayweather and Mosley will be subjected to an unlimited number of unannounced blood and urine tests for all drugs currently banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency, including human growth hormone and designer steroids such as THG.

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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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A senior athletics official has revealed that Marion Jones was under suspicion for using performance enhancing drugs from 2000 onwards.

This statement was made by the officer after the sprinter was sentenced to six months in prison for perjury.

From Guardian.co.uk:

Marion Jones was under suspicion for using performance-enhancing drugs from 2000 onwards, a senior athletics official admitted after the sprinter was sentenced to six months in prison for perjury. It was during the Olympics in Sydney, where Jones won a record five medals, including three golds, that it emerged that CJ Hunter, her shot-putter husband, had tested positive for record levels of testosterone.

‘[There were] certainly no suspicions before,’ said Craig Masback, chief executive of USA Track & Field. ‘No evidence, no phone calls, no tests. Marion was someone who at age 15, 16 had made our Olympic team and so clearly was someone of extraordinary talent.

‘The fact that she had not done well in college and then made a remarkable comeback all seemed logical, within the arc of her career. Obviously, once the CJ news emerged we had concerns.’

It was during the Olympics in Sydney that her shot-putter husband, had tested positive for record levels of testosterone. Jones acknowledged in October 2006 that she took the steroid THG and admitted that she lied to federal investigators in November 2003.

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The controversial US-based coach, Trevor Graham, was recently found on one of three charges of lying to federal investigators about his association with a steroids dealer. Graham could face a retrial after the jury was unable to reach a verdict on the other two counts.

Graham, who guided the careers of the sprinters Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery, had been charged over false claims about his relationship with Angel Heredia who admitted supplying performance enhancing drugs.

From Guardian.co.uk:

The maximum he could receive for the one count of lying is five years in prison and a $250,000 (£127,000) fine, although a typical sentence for a first-time offender is less than one year.

It was the Jamaican-born coach who sparked the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (Balco) scandal in 2003 when he sent a sample of the anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) to the United States Anti-Doping Agency. He then found himself at the centre of the biggest drugs haul in track and field.

In the wake of the Graham trial, where the American 400m runner Antonio Pettigrew admitted using steroids since 1997, Britain’s relay team at the 1997 World Championships could be in for an unexpected gold medal. Led by Roger Black they finished second in Athens behind a US quartet who included Pettigrew. The IAAF’s president, Lamine Diack, wants to look into extending the limit on retrospective drug bans beyond eight years.

William Keane, the court-appointed attorney of Graham, said he would probably file a motion for an acquittal on the one charge that was found proved.

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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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The never-ending desire to attain solid muscles and improve performance is provoking professional sportsmen to anabolic steroids such as Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG).

During a recently concluded study, it was found that nearly 9 percent of bodybuilders going to gyms in the UK make use of steroids to improve performance and muscle quality.

From MedicalNewsToday.com:

Made from the male hormone testosterone, they provide a chemical shortcut to strength and endurance. They promote the development of muscle, reduce fatigue and speed recovery after physical exertion by stimulating the production of protein. This makes them especially attractive to sprinters, weightlifters and throwers such as shot putters, for whom raw power is all-important.

The addition of four hydrogen atoms was all it took to make the anabolic steroid, gestrinone, undetectable by standard tests. A clever bit of work by chemists transformed it into tetrahydro-gestrinone (THG), providing some sportsmen, apparently, with the means to cheat.

The alarm was raised when a used syringe with a barely visible residue inside it was provided by an anonymous track and field coach to the US Anti-Doping Agency. From that residue, a University of California laboratory was able to identify the droplets as THG and then devise a test that would detect it in athletes‘ urine.

UK Sport said yesterday the test for THG would be introduced in Britain as soon as possible. About 7,500 random drug tests are done each year by sport’s governing body, of which 2 per cent are positive.

After anabolic steroids, stimulants such as ephedrine are among the most widely abused sports drugs.

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Anabolic steroids such as Tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) are being used by people with a bent for solid muscles and performance improvements.

A study has disclosed that as many as nine percent of bodybuilders paying a visit to gymnasiums in the United Kingdom use anabolic steroids for improving the quality of muscles and improving performance.

From MedicalNewsToday.com:

Made from the male hormone testosterone, they provide a chemical shortcut to strength and endurance. They promote the development of muscle, reduce fatigue and speed recovery after physical exertion by stimulating the production of protein. This makes them especially attractive to sprinters, weightlifters and throwers such as shot putters, for whom raw power is all-important.

The addition of four hydrogen atoms was all it took to make the anabolic steroid, gestrinone, undetectable by standard tests. A clever bit of work by chemists transformed it into tetrahydro-gestrinone (THG), providing some sportsmen, apparently, with the means to cheat.

The alarm was raised when a used syringe with a barely visible residue inside it was provided by an anonymous track and field coach to the US Anti-Doping Agency. From that residue, a University of California laboratory was able to identify the droplets as THG and then devise a test that would detect it in athletes’ urine.

UK Sport said yesterday the test for THG would be introduced in Britain as soon as possible. About 7,500 random drug tests are done each year by sport’s governing body, of which 2 per cent are positive.

After anabolic steroids, stimulants such as ephedrine are among the most widely abused sports drugs.

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