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NEWPORT sprinter Christian Malcolm has made it at last. After years of injury and illness torment he's going to the Olympic Games in Beijing next month.

Or at least we hope he is, for he pulled out of the last one in Athens at the eleventh hour when he suffered a mystery kidney infection during training in Cyprus just days before.

Add to that hamstring injuries at the Commonwealth Games in Australia and the European Championship trials in Manchester and it has been a career badly affected by one mishap after another.

Fingers crossed, this time Malcolm will get to the starting line in the 200m in China and fulfil all the promise he showed more than a decade ago when he was at Hartridge High School.

Surely nothing will go wrong this time and he will aim for a place in the Olympic final which would be an achievement in itself.

Meanwhile, Thursday is a big day in athletics when Dwayne Chambers attempts to get an Olympic ban overturned by a high court judge after admitting taking drugs.

My own view is that a drugs cheat should never be allowed back in for he has let himself, his teammates and his country down.

That is unforgivable and if an atheltics legend like Steve Cram believes Chambers should remain banned that's good enough for me.

12:11pm Tuesday 15th July 2008

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