Poll: should Dwain Chambers be banned from the Olympics?
Some of the biggest names in British sport, including Sir Steven Redgrave and Dame Kelly Holmes, have weighed into the Dwain Chambers debate by signing a petition calling for all drug cheats to be banned from the Olympic Games
Rick Broadbent, The Times Athletics Correspondent, has explained the case for and against the sprinter, but we want your opinion:
after serving a sentence any person is allowed to rejoin the world,no further discussion.
alternative, bring back the death sentence.
there also is the question of amateur and prof in the olympics.
what is it?
Posted by: john haydon rowe | 5 Jul 2008 08:08:47
It is ludicrous to even consider allowing Chambers to run at the Olympics. He is a self-confessed drug cheat who but for the US court case could still be cheating today with none of us the wiser.It would set an appallingly bad precedent to allow him to compete.Life ban for all drug offenders.
Posted by: B I Jones | 2 Jul 2008 07:56:09
Let him compete if he legally changes his name to "I am a cheat with all the morals of a tomcat. I love drugs, me."
Posted by: Richard Martin | 1 Jul 2008 18:27:00
A cheat is a cheat. Punkt.
Posted by: | 1 Jul 2008 11:30:45
Is Olympic any different from any other sporting events? He has served his punishment. Anything afterwards seems like victimisation or witch-haunting. I hope he takes them down to court. The rules are being re-written after a offense was committed. Afterall Amy Winehouse was at the Mandela show with all her alledged drug taking and nobody was speaking up then.
Posted by: Femi | 30 Jun 2008 17:43:12
A life ban from athletics. I suggest he take up illegal back street bare-knuckle fighting if he wants a sport at his level of morality
Posted by: Moishei. | 30 Jun 2008 14:36:53