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Sprinter Chambers makes admittance
 Chambers can compete in the European championships if he passes three dope tests LONDON, England -- British sprinter Dwain Chambers has admitted taking THG 18 months before testing positive for the designer steroid. Chambers was banned for two years in November 2003 after a positive test. He was also stripped of the silver medal he had won as a member of the British 4x100 meters relay team at the Paris world championships in the same year. In an interview with the BBC, Chambers said he had started taking THG in 2002, the year he won the European 100 meters title, supplied by BALCO laboratory head Victor Conte. "I took THG but I didn't know what its gain and its benefits were," he said. "THG came in liquid form and you put a few drops under your tongue three to four times a week." "I was a bit suspicious about why you would put it under your tongue but Victor explained it was a new product on the market that would aid me nutritionally, so I went forward with it," he said. Chambers, 27, will be eligible to compete in next year's European championships in Gothenburg if he passes three dope tests in the meantime. Conte was sentenced to four months in prison on October 18 this year after pleading guilty to distributing steroids. A number of prominent track and field athletes have been banned since a federal raid on the BALCO laboratory in September 2003, including double world sprint champion Kelli White. 
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