Chambers row slows British sprint options

LONDON (AFP) — Dwain Chambers' ongoing legal battle to race at the Beijing Olympics meant the British Olympic Association (BOA) named just one instead of three 100m sprinters in their China-bound squad on Monday.

Chambers, who won the British trials on Saturday, served a two-year doping suspension after testing positive for THG, but the BOA insists on a lifetime Olympics ban for drugs cheats.

The 30-year-old is hoping UK Athletics will be forced to name him in the squad if a judge grants an injunction against the BOA ban at a High Court hearing in London on Thursday.

He would then line up alongside Simeon Williamson, who was selected on Monday after finishing second behind Chambers in Birmingham on Saturday.

BOA chef de mission Simon Clegg refused to be drawn on implications of the appeal.

"We will have this injunction hearing and we'll consider our position ...