Chambers running close to the wind: BOA move to block appeal

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Dwain Chambers may be denied his chance to run in this year's Olympic Games by a High Court judge today - even before his appeal against a lifetime ban is heard.

The British Olympic Association's lawyers will argue that consideration of his objection to their by-law preventing selection of those banned for doping needs more time and cannot be properly decided in time for the July 20 deadline for Beijing selections.

Today's hearing has been called only to determine when a full hearing should be scheduled but the BOA will try to persuade the judge they have not been given enough time to prepare their defence.

Chambers, who served a two-year ban for doping, has challenged the BOA's by-law on the grounds it is a restraint of trade and inherently unfair. He has qualified on time for Olympic selection at 100metres and needs only to finish in the first two at the Olympic Trials on Saturday to go if he can overturn the BOA's ban.

At the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, Ashlee Nelson, 17, is on track today to surpass the bronze medal her elder brother Alex won in the championships three years ago. She qualified yesterday second fastest for the 100m final in 11.43sec.

The teenager from Stoke-on-Trent was running into a head wind slightly stronger than faced by American Jeneba Tarmoh, whose time of 11.38sec was the fastest. Tarmoh, two years Nelson's senior, won a relay gold in the previous championships.

Emily Pidgeon, the 2005 European junior champion and one of Sportsmail's Magnificent Seven prospects for 2012, finished eighth in the 5,000m after leading at 3,000m.

She finished in 16min 41.29sec in blustery winds in a race won by Ethiopian Sule Utura in 16:15.59.