DWAIN CHAMBERS

‘AT LAST, I GOT JUST A LITTLE LIGHT’
As always with this infamous sprinter, who combines a smiley charm with his bruised fatalism, Dwain Chambers seems unsure whether he should laugh or cry at the state of his troubled life. He tells Donald McRae of how he is capable of beating Usain Bolt and his mountain of debts.
Chambers admits that, at the lowest, he briefly considered suicide.”I think everyone contemplates it at some point in their life.
Chambers and his long-suffering partner, Leonie Daley, a civil servant on maternity leave after giving birth recently to their second son, Rocco, have been in financial crisis for most of their four years together.
Chambers suggests that not even Leonie could help his last summer after he lost his court case to overturn the BOA’s Olympic ban.”It took me three months to get over it”.
Chambers trained alongside the young Jamaican for six months in 2006 and claims that he is “probably the only person who can say he has consistently beaten Usain Bolt. He beat me just as often, don’t get me wrong, and if it was over 150m then forget it. But between 80 and100m I’d win one and he’d win one. He knew I was more than capable of beating him because I did it so often.
“Montgomery got his world record in a race against me and we both on the same doping programme. He knew that I knew, but we never spoke about it”-DWAIN CHAMBERS.
Chambers spreads his arms wide, emulating the cross on his back, and smiles. “If that don’t give you a reason to hope what else could? Today is a new day. That’s my life right now. It’s still cold and hard but, at last, I just a little light”.
by Murugesan.