Dwayne Chambers is is proven cheat and should never be allowed to take part in athletics at any level for the rest of his life.
Do the apologists - those who tell us that he has served his time and should be allowed to start again with a clean slate - do they realise what damage he and his ilk have done to the track and field. Once the purest form of sporting activity, it has descended to a level at which each new achievement is greeted with suspicion about whether it has been chemically enhanced. Until it rids itself of those who have sullied its name it will cotinue to sink into the pits.
Forgive him by all means; we can forgive the bank clerk who has boosted his pay packet with a little creative accounting and been found out, but when he has served his time, he will not find the high street banks queueing up to offer him employment. This would be so even if he were the greatest bank clerk who ever lived.
Forgive Chambers, but never, never, never let him on a running track again.
