Dope lab boss's Games warning

Most athletes at the Beijing Olympics will be drug cheats, according to the man who supplied disgraced sprinter Dwain Chambers with steroids.

Californian lab owner Victor Conte was jailed for four months for drug offences after it emerged he gave athletes the designer steroid THG.

One of his clients was Great Britain's 100m number one Chambers, who was given a two-year ban in 2003 for failing a drug test.

Conte, the founder of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) predicted that clean athletes will be in the minority at this year's Games.

He said: "I still believe the overwhelming majority are going to be using performance-enhancing substances.

"They use substances that are undetectable and they don't have enough testing."

He added: "When athletes truly believe it is much more difficult to circumvent testing you'll see far more performances by athletes who are doing it with hard work as opposed to chemical substances."

Conte revealed he is still in touch with Chambers and called for UK Athletics to use the shamed star "as an example of what not to do".

The governing body controversially selected Chambers to compete for Great Britain at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia next month.

But bosses have been warned not give the 29-year-old any Government money to help him prepare for the tournament.

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