Chambers feels 'like a leper'

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The 29-year-old won his battle to be part of the British team at next month's World Indoor Championships on Tuesday in Valencia even though the UK Athletics selection committee were "unanimous in their desire not to select him".

Chambers won the 60 metres trial race at Sheffield, which should have automatically guaranteed him a place on the team for Spain, and after UKA admitted they reluctantly had to select him he said: "I'm being made to feel like a leper. A terrible stigma has been attached to me but people need to know I am clean."

He added in the Sun: "Yes, I did something wrong. I did the crime -- but I've done my time and now I've moved on.

"Other people are allowed to get on with their lives once they have served a punishment -- so why can't I get on with mine?

"I'm only doing what I'm legally entitled to do. If the law forbade me from running, I wouldn't be doing it."

Chambers may have won the right to compete next month but he must be concerned what future lies ahead.

UK Athletics performance director Dave Collins and his team made it abundantly clear that but for Chambers clearly matching the criteria of winning a medal or being a finalist in Valencia, they would not have picked him.

The UKA statement said: "Taking him to the World Indoors deprives young, upwardly mobile committed athletes of this key development opportunity."

"Unfortunately, the committee felt that the selection criteria pertaining to the winner of the trials, coupled with the manner of Dwain's performance, left them no room to take any other decision."