Sprinter Dwain Chambers has hit back at those criticising his selection for Britain's Indoor World Championship team, saying he is being made to feel like a leper.

Chambers was named in the team for next month's event in Valencia on Tuesday after emphatically winning the British trials but UK Athletics said the selection committee was unanimous in its desire not to include him and did so only because they felt there was no alternative.

Chambers served a two-year ban after testing positive for the banned steroid THB in 2003 and, after an initial comeback was curtailed by a move to American Football, returned to the sport last year.