Athletics: I'm made to feel like a leper - Chambers.(Sport)

From: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) | Date: February 13, 2008 | Copyright information

DISGRACED sprinter Dwain Chambers claims he has been made to "feel like a leper" on his return to the sport having served a ban for failing a drugs test.

The 29-year-old yesterday won his battle to be part of the British team at next month's World Indoor Championships in Valencia even though the UK Athletics selection committee were "unanimous in their desire not to select him".

Chambers was banned for two years after testing positive for the designer steroid THG ...

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