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Doubts over Dwain's future

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The agent of British sprinter Dwain Chambers has cast doubt on the future of his athletics career.

Agent Cubie Seegobin confirmed Chambers - who returned to action in June after a two-year ban for using steroids - will miss the rest of the indoor season,and may look to earn a living outside the sport.

Chambers has to pay back any prize money he won while competing on drugs.

"He won't be competing indoors, that's for sure," Seegobin told BBC Sport's Simon Austin.

"Personally I think because we have so much money to pay back to the IAAF and UK Athletics, if he can find another way to make a living he will do that."

What do you think? Does Chambers have a moral obligation to race to repay his prize money? Or do you think it would be understandable if he sought other career options?

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comment by Simon Austin (U1645949)

posted Dec 12, 2006

Yes, in an interview with BBC Sport last year he admitted to taking THG.

That's why his future track earnings will go toward repaying the prize money he won during the time he admits he was taking steroids.

And that's a big reason why he is keen to switch sports.

Do you think he could make it in American Football?

He tried out for NFL Europe in November and is hoping to be selected for the draft for next season...

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comment by The_Uncredibles (U1683568)

posted Dec 12, 2006

Ha! I hope he does go into AF - he'll get flattened. Of course he should pay back all the money he won while cheating. What's with this 2 year ban stuff anyway, ban him for good.

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comment by tim400 (U1822727)

posted Dec 12, 2006

This was discussed at great length on the old BBC forum some time back.Old story regurgitated again.

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comment by athletenumber1 (U6856751)

posted Dec 12, 2006

People with limited knowledge in athletics forget, Dwain was a talented youngster and had already broken the ten seconds barrier before moving to the coach with whom he took the steroids. To say he cant hack it without the drugs is very unreasonable, however, he has taken drugs and maybe moving to another sport would be a good solution to his money issue.

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comment by mn06dtj007 (U6857843)

posted Dec 12, 2006

I think Chambers was a fine sprinter, before he took drugs. Because he took drugs he has become something short of a fine sprinter, so leaving Athletics will make everyone happy.

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comment by footy_analysis ~ "play beautifully" ~ Messi World and European Player of the Year ~ (U4524469)

posted Dec 12, 2006

I thought I had heard he had admitted to it.

Well, he'd certainly have a lot to offer in American football. He's going to be very quick (even without steroids!) and he looks like he's physically very powerful so he should be a success. It's a shame though that he'll have this hanging over his head now no matter what he does.

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comment by trackstat (U4378307)

posted Dec 12, 2006

hi tim400, where has everyone gone, are there some new messageboards where people are posting?

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comment by tam-chillout (U2249574)

posted Dec 13, 2006

Although he does have a moral obligation to pay back cheated money I appreciate that he probably needs to go and earn his money unfettered by regulation, a fairer thing to do would be to ask him to make a contribution to drugs awareness programmes - deal with the root not the stem of the problem

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comment by Mpagik (U4115705)

posted Dec 13, 2006

trackstat, i still haven’t figure out how these board work, used post regularly but not since bbc implemented this new board

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comment by tlimvvo2max (U4021611)

posted Dec 14, 2006

A fair few regulars have migrated to:

http://athleticsdaily.proboards104.com/

which seems to have built up a bigger head of steam (in every sense!) than this new 606 board.

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