British athlete Chambers says he feels like 'leper'

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LONDON (AFP) — Dwain Chambers said in an interview published Wednesday he was being made to feel like a "leper", just a day after he won his battle to be included on Great Britain's team for next month's World Indoor Championships.

Speaking to The Sun tabloid, Chambers, who was selected despite "unanimous" opposition to his history of using performance enhancing drugs, 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."

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

Chambers earned his place on the plane to Valencia, Spain, by winning the 60m at the national trials on Sunday in a time of 6.55 sec.

But, in an unprecedented move, UK...