Thursday, October 6, 2011

Dwain Chambers, Athlete, Drug Cheat, Role Model? Speaking at a Tonbridge School...

I hear that Dwain Chambers, the athlete and reformed drugs cheat, will be speaking at a Tonbridge school soon. He'll almost certainly tell his audience how tempting it is to give in to the desire to want to be the best at any cost. He might tell the children how much pressure you are under from the people around with vested interest in your success and from your peers to do the wrong thing. He'll no doubt tell them how he succumbed to that temptation and was found out, and banned from competing for two years and received a lifetime ban from the Olympics. But is coming clean and talking about it to impressionable school children and other vulnerable groups enough to cleanse him? Would he do the same again for glory if he thought he could get away with it? The International Olympic Association (IOC) are currently being legally challenged by other reformed drug cheats and under pressure to lift their life time bans. If they are successful then it'll probably mean that Dwain Chambers, who is British 100 metres champion, will be able to fulfil his dream of competing at London 2012. But is this right?...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

One remembers how Tonbridge and the rest of Kent celebrated (and paid millions for) the Tour de France as it passed on its way. Later some of the winners including the yellow jersey rider and indeed winners of other Tour de France races have been found guilty of drug taking. I dont think KCC and TMBC should ever again waste our money on this event.