There's quite a lot of media coverage on Dwain Chambers battle to get his BOA Olympic ban overturned. However I can not bring myself to feel empathy for his situation. Here is a man, who has admitted to taking a cocktail of performance enhancing drugs. He did this knowing the potential risks but obviously felt at the time the benefits were greater and the risk of being caught low. He was wrong on both counts!
While we may debate the fairness or not of a 'life ban', it can not be denied that all UK sports professionals sign up to and work under the same bye law. To cry "injustice" now seems as though Mr Chambers is attempting to have the 'best of both worlds'. Another idiom that comes to mind is 'you reap what you sow'.
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