CASTLEFORD are being linked
with a daring move for controversial
sprinter Dwain Chambers.
The engage Super League's
bottom club have called a press
conference for Monday morning
to make a major announcement
amid speculation that they have
persuaded Chambers to try his
hand at rugby league.
No-one was available for comment
at Castleford but Damion
Silk, Chambers' spokesman,
confirmed last night that the
athlete will be going to Castleford
to have a look at the club
and to discuss the possibility of
a rugby league career.
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However, Silk stressed that it
is just a visit and does not mean
that Chambers will be committing
himself to the Super League
club.
The 29-year-old, a European
gold medalist in 2002, recently
made an abortive move into
American football after retiring
from athletics in the wake of his
two-year drugs ban.
Chambers was banned after
testing positive for the designer
steroid THG but recently made a
controversial comeback to the
track.
He was thought to be set to
launch a legal appeal against the
British Olympic Association's
lifetime ban in a bid to take part
at the Beijing Games.
Chambers would not be the
first high-profile athlete to turn
to the 13-man rugby code -
sprinter Berwyn Jones had a
stint with Wakefield Trinity in
the 1960s.
Castleford have won just one
of their opening eight matches
since their return to Super
League and have the smallest
squad in the top flight.
Champions Leeds, meanwhile,
consolidated top spot in the engage
Super League last night
with a precious 14-10 victory
over St Helens in an energy-sapping
Grand Final re-match at a
rainswept Knowsley Road.
Saints are now six points behind
their arch rivals after going
down to a third defeat in their
last four matches but they
pushed the leaders all the way in
a gruelling contest.
The Rhinos, who were without
four members of their victorious
Grand Final squad, were forced
to shrug off another blow when
they lost stand-off Danny
McGuire with a quadricep injury
after only ten minutes.
Conditions were a far cry from
Old Trafford in October as St Helens
sought to avenge their 33-6
defeat and, after all their recent
injury troubles, they were able
to field all but two of their
Grand Final squad with the return
of Kiwi prop Jason Cayless.
The champions arrived at
Knowsley Road on the crest of a
wave after scoring 122 points in
their three previous matches,
but they were restricted to a solitary
try by half-time after playing
into the driving rain.
Saints trailed by just two
points at the interval and Leeds
extended that advantage to four
points by the end.
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