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While his track rivals prepared for tonight's Norwich Union Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham, Chambers trained alone on a chilly afternoon in north London.

Isolation Chambers: the disgraced sprinter trains yesterday at a deserted Lee Valley

The Briton, banned for two years after a positive drugs test in 2003, has qualified for next month's World Indoor Championships in Valencia but has been told he is not welcome at any of the 51 meetings run by major events organisers Euromeetings.

UK Athletics have also made their feelings clear, as they have privateuseof LeeValleybetween 9am and 1pm — before the complex is open to the public — and have not invited Chambers.

The disgraced sprinter arrived by taxi shortly after 2pm and paid the £3.90 admission.Hethen spent 90 minutes on the track, during which he was forced to move to the other side so white lines could be repainted.

Olympic champion Carolina Kluft yesterday insisted that she would be spat at in her native Sweden if she found herself in the same position as Chambers.

'If someone put something in my drink and I was tested positive, even if I insisted I was innocent, people would think of me as a cheat. They would probably spit at me on the street. It is not acceptable to cheat,' said Kluft.

'That is a good mentality but sometimes it makes me scared. I keep my bottle close to me. My life is dependent on no one doing anything to me.'

Kluft, the Olympic heptathlon champion, is taking part in Birmingham where she will face Britain's Kelly Sotherton in a three-event competition.

Sotherton added that she felt UK Athletics did not make a strong enough stand against drugs cheats in 2006 when Chambers made his first comeback.

Sotherton said: 'It is unfortunate that it has happened now and not two years ago but I am all for cleaning up the sport. We only have a two-year ban, I would always go for life.'

Former Olympic champion Linford Christie insisted Chambers' selection for Valencia would not be an issue if the other sprinters were good enough to keep him out.

He said: 'Shame on the athletes who allow him to come back in the side after two years.'