Should life mean life?

Do you think that Dwain Chambers the sprinter who failed a drug test in 2003, subsequently admitting the use of performance enhancing substances - was banned from athletics for two years, - was stripped of his medals - paid a fine and has a ban from the Olympic Games for life.

Should he be allowed to take part in the Olympics.

The UK is the only country that imposes this lifetime ban - other countries impose a 6 month ban to their athletes

Has Chambers been punished enough and are we now punishing the UK as a whole because our best athlete is forbidden to race.

My view - everyone is entitled to make one mistake, he is a world champion, let him win the medals for Britain and stop all the others who have done the same from laughing at us while they are take part.

Load of bollox he had so little of it. Same Christie as a trainer.

Life means life, rules are rules he knew them & the consequences and still choose to break them.




and I also believe it should be a life for a life but that's a whole different debate.

Hang him

Blyth Spirit wrote:Life means life, rules are rules he knew them & the consequences and still choose to break them.




and I also believe it should be a life for a life but that's a whole different debate.

Yeah rules is rules but across the board in international sport we can't just do as pleasy.

Agree, life for a life hang em high, and all that but as TD says why should we be the only ones that bar our athletes when others do it for just 6 months. Who is the one that suffers there only the UK bottom of the medal table ...... plonkers Rodders, plonkers.

May be if he told them he came from a broken home he will be let off like they do in court .

betty swollocks wrote:May be if he told them he came from a broken home he will be let off like they do in court .

...and he'd win X-Factor....

The Lone Ranger wrote:

...and he'd win X-Factor....

Ain't no good winning, coming second is better.

Should have said a big boy made him do it and then ran away - works for me .

He can't run away, they barred him.

I believe he should be given another chance if he is genuinely sorry for what he did.
Everybody deserves a second chance.
What kind of world would we live in if everyone that made a mistake was ostracised.
Regarding a life for a life, it's a tough question and should be debated but the miscarriages of justice that have been carried out quite frequently in Britain and Ireland put me off the idea completely.

People like Roy Whiteing though, obviously no chance of him having not killed Sarah, why are we paying to keep him alive. If ot was to make someone suffer because they had guilt niggling away at them, fair enough, but nah just terminate the nasty useless pillock.

Mmm, Tricky, But if there isnt a shadow of doubt, And they plead guilty, Burn them,

Mcqueen wrote:Mmm, Tricky, But if there isnt a shadow of doubt, And they plead guilty, Burn them,

slowly.

The Lone Ranger wrote:

betty swollocks wrote:May be if he told them he came from a broken home he will be let off like they do in court .

...and he'd win X-Factor....

Cam, you cynic you!!!

Topdog wrote:People like Roy Whiteing though, obviously no chance of him having not killed Sarah, why are we paying to keep him alive. If ot was to make someone suffer because they had guilt niggling away at them, fair enough, but nah just terminate the nasty useless pillock.

Put him in with the general prison population, simples.

nah they are all the bloody same these days. Meaning all on the same level together, rapists and murderers share.