Chambers to have extra dope tests

Dmac

Chambers to have extra dope tests



Dwain Chambers will be subjected to additional drugs tests while he is with the Hamburg Sea Devils.

Chambers is making a career as a wide receiver in Germany after serving a two-year athletics ban for using drugs.

But an NFL Europe spokesman told BBC Sport: "Because of his background he is liable for additional testing."

It comes in the wake of claims that Chambers is still in touch with Victor Conte, who supplied him with the anabolic steroid THG three years ago.

Conte, who served four months in prison in 2005 for supplying athletes with performance-enhancing drugs, is back in the business of selling nutritional supplements from his old Balco offices under a different name, SNAC.

And he claims he is again supplying Chambers, 27, with supplements, though he insists they are perfectly legal.

"Dwain got caught up in something he shouldn't have been involved in. I mean this kid made mistakes and he came forward," Conte told the Guardian.

"Now he takes Proglycosyn, he takes ZMA, he takes Aerobitine [all SNAC products]. But there is nothing illegal in this stuff, it is simply beneficial from a nutritional point of view."

That claim was originally denied by Chambers in a statement through a Sea Devils spokesman, but when asked to comment by the BBC, the Sea Devils declined.

NFLE spokesman Maik Matischak, though, said: "Whoever Mr Chambers has contacts to in his private life is his private and personal decision, and as long as it does not affect his professional commitments to and contract with NFL Europe, then we will not comment.

"The NFL Europe and the Sea Devils will not comment on Chambers' past. He is a player of the NFLE now and we will only talk about his performance on the field."

However, he added: "All of our players are subject to the NFL's drugs testing policies and procedures, which is among the most stringent in any sport."

Credit - BBC Sport

I don't follow the sport but I found this article interesting so I thought I would post it.

Tyler Durden

Good find.

It's understandable that, once you've cheated, you should be subject to additional tests in the future.

Drug cheats (accompanied with my own nations complete inability to succeed these days) have finished athletics as a sport for me.

It's like boxing....something I used to love, but can no longer give a crap about.

Dmac

It's pretty much like MMA, once people have been tested positive once I think they should be tested regularly because they've done it once, what tells you that they wont again?