Former drugs cheat Dwain Chambers is likely to be free to
compete for Team GB in London this summer.
The sprinter tested positive for a banned substance in 2003, and was banned
from ever running for Team GB in an Olympics again.
Britain is the only country in the world that still enforces a lifetime ban
for drugs cheats.
But that ruling looks set to be overruled by the court of arbitration for
sport next week.
The British Olympic
Association made the decision to ban drug cheats for life in 1992.
But the World Anti-Doping
Agency doesn't think that that is fair if the athlete has already served a
suspension for the offence.
There has since been a legal
battle between the BOA and WADA over who is right at the court of arbitration
for sport.
Cyclist David Millar was also
banned by the BOA, but has since raced for Britain in the World
Championships
And although nothing official
has been announced, the BOA have reportedly accepted in private that they will
lose the case.
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