Chambers' Olympics court date is delayed by 24 hours

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The move follows a request by the BOA, whose chairman Lord Moynihan is out of the country on Wednesday, when the injunction hearing was originally due to be heard. Chambers is appealing against the BOA bylaw which forbids drugs offenders from competing for Britain at the Olympics and is seeking a temporary lifting of the ban to allow him to go to Beijing.

The switch to Thursday still allows time for the loser to appeal the judge's decision on Friday - ahead of the final deadline for submission of Olympic teams on Saturday.

Britain's athletics selectors were meeting in Birmingham today to pick their team for Beijing, facing the scenario which they had always dreaded following Chambers' emphatic victory in Saturday's 100 metres trial.

Whatever selection decision they come to for the 100m could be rendered redundant by the court although Tyrone Edgar, the sprinter who could end up the biggest loser of all in the Chambers saga, remains hopeful the ban will not be overturned.

The US-based Londoner said: "If I did not go, I would not feel too happy. The Olympic Games are my dream. I think the rules should stand."

On Saturday, Chambers led home Simeon Williamson, who is now certain of selection, while thirdplaced Craig Pickering also believed he had done enough to be in the team after beating Edgar into fourth.

Yet with only three 100m men to be chosen, one athlete is going to be left desperately unhappy.

UK Athletics selectors, who will not name Chambers in the team before the hearing, may however decide today to include just Williamson and Pickering for the moment or to not name anybody at all in the 100m until Thursday's case is concluded.