Fingers crossed for Chambers

Seems a bit unfair when Gatlin is competing for the USA despite having failed 2 drugs tests, which should mean a life ban.  I'm sure that quite a few, although a minority of athletes, get done inadvertently.

Going back to Gatlin, I backed the 100m World Record to be broken in 2006, £100 at 5/1 with Corals.  I remember it was the weekend of the FA Cup final, approximately the 15th of May, and I was spending a weekend away at a nice hotel celebrating my 40th without the kids.  I came down for breakfast on the Saturday morning, picked up my copy of The Telegraph, and noticed that Gatlin had broken the World Record.  It didnt half cheer me up as I was suffering from my first confidence crisis with my betting at that time and it was completely out of the blue.  I went on to record three five figure profit months on the trot, the only time I've ever done that (pre premium charges of course) and almost certainly the only time I ever will.  That result was the catalyst.

Of course, some time after breaking the record Gatlin failed a drugs test, and the time was stripped from the record books.  The irony was that I'd put the bet on because I fancied Asafa Powell's chances of breaking the world record, I never even considered that someone else might.  Powell went on to equal the record twice that year, so it could have been one of unluckiest losers I ever had.