British sprinter Dwain Chambers will not be able to run at Beijing 2008 after failing to get a High Court injunction to overturn a lifetime Olympic ban placed on him by the British Olympic Association (BOA).
Chambers received a two-year worldwide ban for taking performance enhancing drugs in 2004, and in addition to having his 2002 European 100 meters gold medal and British record (9.87 seconds) taken off him, was banned from the Olympics for life by the BOA .
However, his worldwide ban expired in November 7, 2005 and he returned to athletics in 2006, winning a European Championship gold medal as a member of the British 4 x 100m team
The 30 year old attempted to carve out a career in American football in 2007 which ended in failure, but has been back on the track this year winning a silver medal in the World Indoor Championships in March and the 2008 British Olympic athletics trials in Birmingham with a time of 10.00 seconds.
However, on Friday July 18, a High Court judge in London rejected the athlete’s attempt to overturn his lifetime Olympic ban.
British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman Colin Moynihan was quoted on the BOA official website as saying nobody found guilty of serious drug cheating offenses should have the honor of wearing a Team GB vest at the Olympic Games.
(Source: en.beijing2008.cn)