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Chambers told to take legal action
DWAIN Chambers has been
urged to take legal action if he
continues to be frozen out of athletics
by race organisers.
The sprinter, who recently
made a second comeback from a
two-year doping ban, has been
snubbed on more than one occasion
as he attempts to rebuild his
career.
Chryste Gaines, a leading US
sprinter who has also recently returned
from suspension, has
found herself in a similar
predicament.
She said: We're being prevented
from making an income.
It's against the law in the US - I
don't know about British law -
and they know it.
They know how I am and they
know what I will do, and that's
file a law suit.''
Like Chambers, Gaines' ban
came as the result of the investigation
into the Bay Area Laboratory
Co-Operative, or Balco, a US
company based in California that
initially specialised in food supplements
but became infamous
for its sideline in performanceenhancing
drugs.
Gaines, banned alongside Tim
Montgomery in 2005, has become
increasingly frustrated since her
ban ended in June.
I can only imagine what
Dwain is going through, because
it's difficult when that's your living
and they're going to take that
away from you.
What else are you supposed to
do? You do what they ask you to
do and sit out your time. Then
they want to prevent you from
coming back, which is against
their own rules.
Because we were affiliated
with Balco we have this whole
different stigma attached to us.
We're being treated differently.
We're asked to serve a lifetime
ban.''
Gaines believes the IAAF
should force promoters not to discriminate
against athletes who
have served doping bans.
But they are independent of
the governing body and at liberty
to invite who they like.
8:58am Friday 29th February 2008
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