Dreams Of Gold
BOA are talking tough
BRITISH Olympic Association
(BOA) chairman Lord Moynihan
has vowed to spare no expense in
making sure former drugs cheat
Dwain Chambers does not represent
Great Britain in Beijing.
The sprinter, 29, was banned
for life by the BOA under a bylaw
that was triggered when he
tested positive for the steroid
THG in 2003.
Chambers served a two-year
ban and returned to claim silver
in the 60m final at the World Indoor
Championships in Valencia
this month.
Now he is considering mounting
a High Court challenge to the
BOA ban, but Moynihan has
made it clear the organisation,
which is aiming to raise £3m to
send around 700 competitors to
Beijing later in the year, was prepared
to fight him all the way, no
matter the cost.
He said: There will be no
room for cheats in the British
team as long as I am involved
with the BOA.
I will robustly and vigorously
defend our by-laws in the interest
of all the athletes who
seek to represent us both in this
generation and future generations
and I'm not going to trade
that in for any financial interest.
We will pay whatever is necessary
to have top lawyers represent
us and put the strongest
case in support of that ban.
What matters is the principle
we will send a clean team to Beijing
and there will be no room
for doping cheats."
It has also been suggested that
Chambers might meet with the
BOA to come to a compromise,
but Moynihan was adamant that
could never happen.
He said: There are absolutely
no grounds whatsoever for
compromise.
Mr Chambers has the opportunity
to make a challenge but
if anyone is implying that there
is a way I can sit down with him,
somehow select him and ignore
the by-law then forget it. Completely.''
11:26am Thursday 13th March 2008
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