Chambers must help drugs fight

john the tinca · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:54 am Post subject: Chambers must help drugs fight

The head of Britain's anti-doping body has called on Dwain Chambers to provide inside information that might help in the fight against drugs cheats.

UK Sport's John Scott told BBC Sport that Chambers could and should do more.

"He says he made mistakes but there has not been a willingness to point fingers at those who helped him or to be honest about the drugs he was on," said Scott.

Sprinter Chambers, 29, served a two-year ban from athletics after failing a drugs test in 2003.

He won a 60m silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia earlier this month but Scott added: "It has been a long time since Dwain was caught and there has been no effort by him to actually share information."

But his presence in the Great Britain team was highly contentious and it is something of an understatement to say that not everybody involved in athletics in his home nation is pleased by his return.

Speaking after his success in Spain, Chambers told reporters he was eager to put his controversial past behind him and added that he wanted to help the anti-doping cause.

And in an interview with The Voice newspaper this week, Chambers said: "Drugs made my life hell - it was difficult, very difficult.

"I needed to get it off my shoulders because I felt I was living a lie and I didn't want to continue living that way.

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