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View Poll Results: Should Dwain Chambers go to Beijing?
No, the lifetime ban should be upheld 15 88.24%
Yes, he should be allowed to represent GB 2 11.76%
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Old 18-07-2008, 05:01 PM
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If it's the 1988 100m final you're talking about, yes, I do seem to recall Carl Lewis
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BBC Radio 4 have been running trailers for a documentary about "The Race of Shame". Ben Johnson is heard in the trailer. I expect they interview the others as well

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Yeah strange one that, Rio gets 8 months for missing a test and Mutu gets 7 months for testing positive. Go figure.
Mutu was caught with a recreational drug in his system, Ferdinand missed a test that may have revealed a performance enhancing one. Not so strange. The rumour was, as you probably know, that Rio was under treatment for something anti-social at the time.
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Chambers is a cheat, he was caught, therefore he should be banned for life.
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The rumour was, as you probably know, that Rio was under treatment for something anti-social at the time.
Yes and the clever lad thought he'd skip off rather than risk the story leaking - so to speak .....
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Yes and the clever lad thought he'd skip off rather than risk the story leaking - so to speak .....
Leaks can get quite messy, I've been told....and unpleasant.
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I'm in two minds on this, I can see why 'clean' athletes wouldn't want him as part of the team and that his taking the place of another athlete would grate. But shouldn't wrongdoers have the chance of redemption?
It's a matter of trust I suppose because if Chambers won anything there would always be people who suspected that it was through chemical enhancements. So even if he was as "clean as a whistle" (a puzzling expression because most whistles I've seen have been full of other people's spit) there would always be an element of doubt.

It also sends out a signal that if you do eventually get caught cheating then all will be forgiven, and you are then free to make a lucrative career on the after-dinner circuit as a "bad boy made good", when in reality had you not been found out you may have continued cheating indefinitely. If it's in your nature to be corrupt then you will be tempted to cheat again otherwise you wouldn't have dreamt of doing it in the first place!

With cheating scandals in athletics and cycling in the main over many years it isn't surprising that interest in these sports is (D)waining, and the more cheats prosper then the lesser the chances are of attracting participants and fans and the sports surviving in the future.
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After the event......it seems that, if he had gone to Beijing, he would have been unlikely to have reached the 100m final
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