There is another lengthy pause. Because you could see the innocence in their faces. They want to believe their dad is perfect. They're still very young. They didn't understand. There will be instances in life when they're going to get pulled up on it. It's going to happen. Because of me. I've told them that their life will be hard, because of me.
You might listen to that and feel little compassion. Adults have to be responsible for their own actions. You might alternatively think back to mistakes you made early in your own life, and feel that there is a time to forgive and forget. Or you might be somewhere in between: hating what doping has done to sport, sympathetic to a man who wished his life hadn't changed on one mighty lapse and who has shown remorse for a long time since.
Chambers gives a half-smile. I never realised the magnitude of the mistake or the disruption it would cause. If I could have looked in a crystal ball and seen what happened, I'd never have made that decision.
There are many exits, and I've chosen to take lots of them. Which one was the right one for me? Finding out is what life is all about. If I drove that same road again, I'd read the description on all the signs. I'd choose a different exit. But I went through it. It hasn't been easy, because that's not a conversation many dads have with their kids. Most kids will never know their father's past.
I don't know my dad's past. Only because they still don't fully understand. Phoenix ain't got a clue. They won't know until they go into sport, if they choose to go into sport.
But they'll be wiser than me. Here in Zurich, Chambers is pleased just to be running. In winning his heat on Tuesday night he looked comfortable, even if Frenchman Jimmy Vicaut - the only man in the field who has gone under 10 seconds this year - looked the class act, easing up in Vicaut is 14 years younger than Chambers. His season's best is 0.
Last week his former coach Remi Korchemny was indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States on charges relating to distributing steroids and growth hormones to athletes. Tuesday's guilty verdict was handed down only after UK Athletics had examined complex scientific evidence at last week's hearing to determine whether THG, which does not yet figure on the International Association of Athletics Federations' list of prohibited drugs, was actually a banned substance or not.
UK Athletics said that they had proved that the relationship existed and that THG was related to gestrinone. Chambers won the European title in Munich in and went on to equal Linford Christie's European m record of 9. However after moving to Korchemny's US-based group in late , he had a disappointing and finished fourth in the world championships m final in Paris. His ban raises a question over whether Britain will be able to hold onto its silver medal picked up in the 4xm relay with Chambers' help at the world championships in Paris last year.
Shit, what if they search my bag? I was a walking junkie. Chambers, whose return to athletics has been dogged by controversy, reveals how he was introduced to the world of performance enhancing drugs by his Ukrainian coach Remi Korchemny, who in turn set up the meeting with Conte, regarded as the pioneer behind the banned steroid THG, tetrahydrogestrinone.
Chambers claims not to have known who Conte was but he took to his programme with the promise of becoming an Olympic champion. In his autobiography, released on 9 March, Chambers also describes the moment in April when drug testers first paid a visit to his home.
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