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Chambers' NFL career prospects grow

04/01/2007

Former Great Britain international sprinter Dwain Chambers is to attend a two-day NFL Europe training camp in Barcelona later this month.

Chambers, banned from athletics for two years in 2003 for taking banned anabolic steroids, will join up with other amateurs hoping to make the European league's draft of new players.

The 28-year-old is determined to make his living away from the track as he is obliged to repay earnings won before his ban, believed to be around £180,000, from any future athletics prize money.

Having attended a similar trial in Colonge in November, Chambers will be looking to reinforce the favourable impression he made last year.

"Dwain did better than they had expected - he was tougher than they thought," said NFL International director of public affairs David Tossell.

"He is very determined and that's impressed us. And he has a vital quality that you can't coach - raw speed."

The former European Junior 100 metres champion is typically bullish about his chances of making the conversion to a new sport.

"It all helps me creep forward to starting a new career in American football and those who doubt I can do it don't know me very well. Those that do know me know I am capable of doing it," he told the Voice newspaper.

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