Post by Taxigirl on Feb 19, 2004 12:10:07 GMT
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/3203743.stm
Dwain Chambers has arrived at the disciplinary hearing in London which will decide his athletics future.
Chambers went into the offices of UK Athletics solicitors Farrer and Co with his lawyer Graham Shear at 0900 GMT.
He could be banned for two years if found guilty at the independent UK Athletics hearing of taking anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG).
The European 100m champion tested positive for THG last July and has been suspended since November.
Michael Berloff QC, who represented skier Alain Baxter when he tested positive in 2002, will defend Chambers.
UK Athletics will be represented by David Pannick QC, who has been defending tennis player Greg Rusedski at his doping hearing with the ATP in Montreal.
It will be heard by a three-man panel chaired by Charles Flint QC.
The hearing, which is expected to last two days, will be conducted in private and only the final verdict released to the media.
Chambers, from Islington, north London, is due to fly to Tampa early next week in an attempt to break into American football.
news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/3204747.stm
But he could be forced to miss the NFL training camp if the verdict from his hearing is delayed.
Mark Brodie, a spokesman for Chambers' management company Stellar, said: "In the circumstances you cannot expect Dwain to go to the NFL training camp not knowing the result.
"Obviously it has been arranged for some time and there is no way organisers would change the date."
Last week Chambers' former coach Remi Korchemny was indicted by a federal grand jury in America on charges relating to distributing steroids to athletes.