Tigers make audacious Chambers move

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Super League's bottom club have invited the disgraced athlete to have trials and plan to unveil him at a press conference at the Jungle on Monday morning.

There is no official comment from Castleford, who have negotiated a deal with a Sunday newspaper, but media manager David Smart said: "All will be revealed on Sunday morning but what I can say is that it's not a publicity stunt."

Damion Silk, Chambers' public relations spokesman, confirmed on Friday night that the athlete will be going to Castleford to have a look at the club and to discuss the possibility of a rugby league career.

The 29-year-old Chambers, a European gold medalist in 2002, twice tried and failed to break into American football after retiring from athletics in the wake of his two-year drugs ban.

Chambers, banned in 2003 after testing positive for the banned designer steroid THG, recently made an unwelcome comeback to the track but was thwarted in his attempt to take part in the Beijing Olympics.

He won £10,000 for his joint second place in the 60 metres at the World Indoor Championships earlier this month but that barely made a dent in the £100,000 he owes the IAAF for prizemoney won while he was cheating.

Chambers has no previous experience of either code of rugby but his speed would be an obvious asset to the Tigers, who have won just one of their opening eight matches since their return to Super League.

Castleford have the smallest squad in Super League but have scope within the salary cap to bolster their numbers.

He would become the highest-profile sprinter to turn to rugby league since Berwyn Jones, the British 100 yards record-holder, joined Wakefield Trinity in 1964. Jones was selected on the 1966 Great Britain tour to Australia.