Ohuruogu disapponited by reaction

The 23-year-old edged out team-mate Nicola Sanders to lead home a British one-two at the Nagai Stadium, but there has been mixed reaction from the public who have questioned whether an athlete who has been found guilty of a doping offence should be allowed to compete.

Ohuruogu said: "The reaction from home has been mixed. I was very disappointed, the way I see it is you are damned if you do and damned if you don't,"

The Londoner also voiced surprise at calls for her lifetime ban issued by the British Olympic Association - which would keep her out of the Beijing Games next year - to be upheld despite her appeal against it.

"If I hadn't run well people would have questioned why I was brought out here, and when I do try to turn something around it is thrown in my face. I am not happy about it but I just have to deal with it.

"It was expected, I would be stupid if it wasn't. I have had to deal with it over the last year and I managed to only see it as a distraction, so to be honest it won't bother me again."

Ohuruogu has never failed a drugs test but missed a third test in August 2006 after missing two previous ones in October 2005, a fact the Commonwealth Games champion believes is being overlooked by her critics.

Under the testing system in place then, athletes had to give the anti-doping authorities their whereabouts for five hour-long slots every week.

Ohuruogu claims that an event at her regular training track forced her to go elsewhere on the day of her third missed test, and that she simply forgot to tell the authorities, she claims that it was not until a week later that she was even made aware of the missed test.

"Many people don't understand the system we have. It is very easy to say you had two missed tests and why didn't you make it to that third," she told BBC Radio Five Live.