Dwain Chambers runs out of time

Dwain Chambers was the British sprinter who in 2003 was exposed as one of the central characters in the BALCO conspiracy when he tested positive for THG and other illegal per-formance enhancing substances. In addition to his standard two year ban imposed by WADA, he was also banned from Olympic competition for life by the British Olympic Association. This paper examines the background to that ban and the challenge to the legal status of his lifetime exclusion that Chambers undertook in the High Court.