Chambers loses bid for High Court injunction

LONDON, July 18, 2008 (AFP) British sprinter Dwain Chambers lost his bid to compete in the Beijing Olympics after failing to get a temporary High Court injunction on Friday against his lifetime Olympic ban.

Chambers, 30, had gone to court hoping to overturn the British Olympic Association (BOA) bylaw which precluded him from competing in China next month.

He served a two-year suspension after testing positive for the steroid THG in 2003, but argued that the BOA's additional punishment was an unfair restraint of trade.

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