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Rules are to blame - not Dwain Chambers - Telegraph

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Burns   Feb 12th 2008, 7:50am
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Well, Dwain, here is another fine mess. It took 6.56 seconds on Sunday for British and world athletics to reap the whirlwind of their pathetic response to drug cheats over the years. The most high-profile athlete in Britain is now a man who was banned for the sport for two years in 2003 for injecting himself with tetra-hydrogestrinone, the synthetic steroid THG.

They would like him out of there. UK Athletics chief executive, Niels de Vos, does not want him to compete for Britain. He has taken an admirable stance. Drugs in sport is an abomination, skewing competition, damaging bodies, destroying the credibility of an entire sport. But Chambers is not to blame for that. He is the outcome, not the cause.

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